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California just passed a major privacy law that will make it harder for Facebook and Google to track people and gather data

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A new law passed by California voters in the November election will set an unprecedented standard for digital privacy in the US, making it harder for big tech companies like Facebook and Google to track people’s data. […]

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TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year

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Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device, which skirted Google’s policies and did not allow users to opt out. […]

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Warning Message on Looted iPhones Lets Punks Know Devices Are Tracked and Cops Are Involved

… stolen devices can be locked and tracked. So, given that I’m assuming Apple has some reasonable control over its inventory, one can assume other phones stolen from these stores aren’t going to be usable for that long. […]

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