data privacy
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Facebook Says It’s Giving You A Tool To Kill Third-Party Tracking
Facebook is holding its F8 developer conference today. Given that it’s been going through a lot of trouble related to third-party developers it brought a surprise announcement to take your mind off of privacy concerns. It will soon give you control over the information that apps and websites are seeing about you, and let you…
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Facebook Decides To Back Off Creepy Hospital Data-Sharing Project for Some Reason
In what might be the shortest time yet for an Onion headline to nearly mirror reality, Facebook has backed off plans to share sensitive info about your inner life with doctors and hospitals. And all it took was the company being embroiled in a cataclysmic data-sharing scandal.
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Grindr Shares Users’ HIV Statuses With Third Parties, Researchers Find
Popular gay dating app Grindr has been sharing users’ HIV statuses with third parties without informing users, BuzzFeed reported Monday.
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Here’s How To Share As Little Data As Possible Without Deleting Facebook
As you may have realised by now, Facebook can’t be trusted with your data, and has been caught out time and time again letting it leak out to places it shouldn’t. If you can’t quite bring yourself to close down your account – maybe there’s a support group or family connections you’d like to keep…