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New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data
Telecommunications firms and mobile-based apps make billions of dollars per year by selling customer location data to marketers and other businesses, offering a vast window…
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Opinion | FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don’t Understand It
FaceApp, a mobile face-editing application, has all the necessary components for a viral privacy scandal: a catchy concept, celebrity users, a mysterious company and a…
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Opinion | Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google products are designed to be helpful. They take the friction out of daily life (for example, by showing you the…
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Opinion | We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore
Two decades ago, at the dawn of the internet age, in an era before smartphones, before apps, before all manner of devices that monitor everything…
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Opinion | Why It’s So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You
When you signed up for cellphone service, I bet you didn’t expect that your exact location could be sold to anyone for a few hundred…
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Facebook’s Data Sharing: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation
You are the product: That is the deal many Silicon Valley companies offer to consumers. The users get free search engines, social media accounts and…
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