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โ€˜Kingdom Leaksโ€™ will go on until January 1, 2021, and then itโ€™ll close down forever.The reasons given are that theโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 27, 2021
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Three large music labels are putting Apple in the defendantโ€™s position in a Moscow court.The case involves three pirate musicโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 27, 2021
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The โ€œMusic Missionโ€ has released its first findings around pirating platforms, and the size of some is startling. What isโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 27, 2021
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The operator of the โ€˜.MUSICโ€™ domain has finally reached a contractual agreement with the ICANN.The prerequisites for getting a domainโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 27, 2021

A report released by the NY Times has revealed how some apps capture and share user location data. 20 appsโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Facebook Is Being Investigated Over Its Data Practices in Seven States

Seven states in the United States are currently investigating Facebook in two groups. The social media companyโ€™s data practices andโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Mozilla and EFF are asking PayPal to consider changing their Venmo privacy-undermining settings. The app has been repeatedly exposed byโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021

The French Competition watchdog decided that Appleโ€™s privacy-persevering features may be rolled-out as planned.The agency has rejected an urgent interimโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Android is going to introduce mandatory data collection and usage purpose declarations on all apps in 2022.This follows Appleโ€™s recentโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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The Hamburg Data Privacy regulator has issued a prohibiting order for WhatsApp.The authority wants to prevent the sharing of Germanโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021

A few apps have collectively exposed millions of sensitive user data due to cloud service misconfigurations. Oftentimes, the embedded keysโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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All Venmo profile images that you have uploaded are easily accessible by anyone who finds your account URL.This privacy problemโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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WhatsApp is accusing the Indian government of forcing it to strip privacy protections from its IM product.The software communications companyโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Intermediaries Rules in India taking into effect

The โ€œIntermediaries Rulesโ€ that were voted three months ago are coming into effect today. The new rules will force techโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Swedish payments platform Klarna has suffered a security breach incident they disregard as merely an โ€œinconvenience.โ€Users who attempted to logโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Unredacted court documents present Google's shady practices around user location data collection.The company purposefully hid settings, pushed them deep intoโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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โ€˜UC Browserโ€™ is sending user browsing details to Alibabaโ€™s and UCWebโ€™s servers even when in incognito mode.The browser is doingโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Signal wasnโ€™t generating alerts when โ€œsafety numbersโ€ on chat rooms are changed in the past couple of months.The IM platformโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Researchers analyzed the 'Voila' app and found no apparent data retention or management violations. The particular app is still somewhatโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021

TikTok is facing a massive legal claim in the Netherlands, supported by two consumer protection organizations.The requested reimbursement amount isโ€ฆ

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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