There is hardly a month that passes by without the disclosure of yet another data breach. In April of 2021, the personal data from several hundred million LinkedIn users was scraped off public profiles with the intention of being sold online. Around the same time it was reported that personal information from 533 million Facebook …
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All of us have received ads for things we have not searched for but have talked about with our friends, family and co-workers. These type of ads may include the shoe brand of a co-worker, a destination someone from your family just go back or even a new fancy wireless BBQ temperature gauge your best …
This week Apple introduced a new feature to iPhones and iPads that will allow users to say no to having their data collected by apps. Similarly Google announced it will phase out cookies for ads in its popular Chrome browser. While these are steps in the right direction, it doesn’t mean you can’t be tracked …
Facebook says that the data leak that became public last week is not their fault, but the fault of the users. Interesting response from Facebook to the data leak, which exposed data from over 500 million users. “While we addressed the issue identified in 2019, it’s always good for everyone to make sure that their …
Whether you have an iOS system or a Google Android device, you share data with Apple or Google on average every 4.5 minutes, EVEN when your phone is idle and you’ve opted out of sharing. Each day, this amounts to 2MB of your personal data transmitted to Google and 100 KB to Apple. This includes …
Your probably know that most businesses share your online activity with Facebook and other Big Tech firms. But did you know that you can disconnect and delete the activity history from your Facebook account? On Facebook you can view and configure this in your account settings. You can even look at the list of all …