Feds fine YouTube $170M for collecting kids’ data without parents’ consent
Google’s video site YouTube has been fined $170 million to settle allegations it collected children’s personal data without their parents’ consent.
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New Facebook tools enables users to turn off tracking
Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network from gathering information about you on outside websites and apps.
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Analysis: Hackers are key to Chinese strategy to dominate Internet of Things, other tech
The Chinese goal is to get global domination from telecommunications networks over computers to IOT devices, and hackers are a key part of the strategy to make the goal a reality, writes telecommunications consultant and analyst John Strand.
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In quest to solve murders, Raleigh community targeted twice by Google warrants
Raleigh Police have only used warrants seeking device locations from Google a handful of times. But in Washington Terrace, they’ve asked twice. Here’s the story.
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Facebook offers to pay you to disclose what apps you are using
Facebook on Tuesday launched an app that will pay users to share information with the social media giant about which apps they’re using.
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Mortgage, real estate insurer left nearly 900M customer files vulnerable
A leading US real estate and mortgage insurer, First American Financial Corp., left vulnerable an enormous trove of digital documents, some of which may have contained social security numbers and bank account information.
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Google promises more privacy, security but skeptics aren’t so sure
Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they’re being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing scrutiny of their data collection practices. But skeptics remain.
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