privacy
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WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates
A federal judge in San Francisco indicated that the Department of Justice still doesn’t have jack shit to convince her to allow the Trump administration to move forward with a ban on new downloads of Chinese messaging app WeChat while court battles proceed, per the Verge.
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Soon You Can Ask Alexa to Forget Everything You Ever Said
Privacy is the big thing that gives people the heebie-jeebies when it comes to digital assistants like Alexa. But at Amazon’s devices and services event today, the company announced it was expanding privacy settings with regard to voice recordings.
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This Tool Lets You See How Every Website is Tracking You
We all know we’re being tracked online. That’s the business model of the “free” internet: a website remembers your friends birthdays or lets you upload selfies. In return, they get to hoover up every bit of information about and serve you ads. Fair trade? Well, people seem to do it! And what makes this tracking…
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WhatsApp’s Encryption Hasn’t Kept It Safe From Stalkerware
Among the sprawl of properties in the Facebook family, WhatsApp’s perhaps the only one that’s preached preserving user privacy and actually followed through. But that hasn’t stopped bad actors from finding new ways to spy and snoop without the platform’s — or any user’s — say-so.