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A breach of Gravy Analytics’ vast trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions
By techtost.com
An intrusion and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics threatens the privacy of millions of people around the world whose smartphone apps inadvertently exposed…
World(coin) must allow Europeans to completely delete their data, according to the privacy mandate
By techtost.com
It took far longer than originally planned weeks to arrive, but a critical privacy decision that has been hanging over Sam Altman’s World (aka Worldcoin) for…
Over the weekend, an excerpt from a recent interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov went semi-viral on X (formerly Twitter). In the videoDurov tells right-wing personality…
Google is making reviews of all your movies, TV shows, books, albums and games visible under one profile page starting June 24, according to an email…
The US Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice.…
Proton, the Swiss company behind a number of privacy-focused apps like ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by moving to a new…
iOS apps that build their own social networks on the back of users’ address books may soon be a thing of the past. In iOS 18,…
Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records – affecting at least 300 million…
Privacy watchdogs in the UK and Canada launched a joint investigation into the 23andMe data breach last year. On Monday, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)…
Bangladesh police agents accused of selling citizens’ personal information on Telegram
By techtost.com
Two senior officials working for the counter-terrorism police in Bangladesh allegedly collected and sold private and personal information of citizens to criminals on Telegram, according to…