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Don’t type anything into Gemini, Google’s family of GenAI apps, that is incriminating — or that you wouldn’t want someone else to see. This is the…

A fake application that was disguised as a LastPass password manager in the App Store has been removed, it’s not yet clear whether Apple or the…

Mozilla is introducing a new subscription service today that will help people identify and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker sites on the…

The US Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on data brokers with a settlement that bars data aggregator InMarket from selling consumers’ precise location data. Texas-based…

Anyone who knows your WhatsApp number can tell if you only use the mobile app or its companion web or desktop apps, a security researcher has…

The US Federal Trade Commission has banned data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first…

A joke – but it’s true — the joke at TechCrunch is that the security office might as well be called the Department of Bad News,…

While the biggest news today from Meta’s messaging app world was the launch of end-to-end encryption in Messenger, the company is also bringing another useful feature…

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) warned in a letter to the Department of Justice that unknown governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through…

In 2015, as part of a wave of encryption of all things online, spurred on by Edward Snowden’s revelations, Facebook announced that would allow users to…