Topic: user data collection
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FBI: Chinese Mobile Apps Pose Privacy Risks
The FBI warns that foreign-developed mobile apps, particularly from China, pose significant privacy risks as their developers can be legally compelled to share user data with foreign governments. These applications often engage in extensive, sometimes surreptitious, data harvesting, collecting se...
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Mixpanel Data Breach Raises Critical Security Questions
A major cybersecurity breach at analytics firm Mixpanel exposed customer data, including from client OpenAI, highlighting severe transparency and communication failures in its incident response. The incident reveals the extensive and sensitive behavioral data collected by the analytics industry, ...
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OpenAI Adds Marketing Cookies as Default for Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI has enabled marketing cookies by default for free-tier ChatGPT users, allowing the company to serve ads for its products on third-party websites while keeping actual chat conversations private. The policy shift aims to convert free users into paying customers by leveraging browsing data, w...
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Meta Faces Its Biggest Reckoning Yet
A federal trial in Oakland pits 29 state attorneys general against Meta, alleging COPPA violations by collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent and making deceptive statements about Facebook and Instagram. Meta's defense argues full COPPA compliance, denies deceptive communi...
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Apple, Google Forced to Adopt Texas Age Checks
Starting in 2026, Texas, Utah, and Louisiana will require age verification for app downloads from major platforms like Apple's App Store and Google Play to protect minors online. Apple and Google are implementing these systems under state laws but have raised privacy concerns, as the measures nec...
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