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Hear the Table Manners of Canada Lynx in Stunningly Gruesome Detail
For the past five years, researchers in Canada have been spying on their local wild cats, the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), using accelerometers and audio recorders. The instruments have given the researchers an intimate look at how the animals engage with their environments, from how they hunt down food to how they communicate with other…
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Google Can Be Sued for Tracking Users in Private Browsing Mode, Judge Says
A U.S. district judge in California has stated that Google can be sued for collecting data on users even when they use “private browsing mode” on their selected browsers.
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Apple Defends Delay of iOS 14 Feature Limiting App Tracking, Blasts Facebook
Earlier this year, human rights and privacy groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch wrote to Apple, asking why it was delaying the introduction of a feature that would force apps to receive explicit opt-in from iPhone users before tracking them. Apple responded, according to Bloomberg, with a letter slamming Facebook.
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Police Deny Phone Tracking Coronavirus Cases But Experts Think It Might Soon Change
News headlines would suggest the country is on lockdown thanks to coronavirus but if you step outside or head to town centres, many aspects of Australian society continue on seemingly unaffected. While a lot of us are heeding social distancing and quarantine advice, there are many who are not ” in part due to mixed…