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Facebook says it will cease cooperation with all third-party data collectors
Facebook has said it will no longer offer an advertising option that exploits personal data provided by third-party aggregators. The company, still bleeding from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, said it wants to improve privacy.
Among the companies that will be affected by the new measure are: Acxiom, which provides data from the US, the UK, France, Germany and Australia, Epsilon, which monitors the...
NSA to Stop Warrantless Surveillance, Will Delete Vast Majority of Data Collected
The U.S. NSA has halted a form of surveillance that allowed it to collect without a warrant the digital communications of Americans that mentioned a foreign intelligence target, the spy agency confirmed on Friday, Reuters reports.
Via Reuters:
The decision to stop the once-secret activity, which collected messages sent to or received from people believed to be living overseas, arrives as a sudden...
Why Obama's Dubious Promise to End NSA Surveillance Is Meaningless
Barack Obama will call for an end to the NSA’s warrantless collection of telephone metadata of Americans during a speech today, but his words will be completely meaningless given that the president has broken virtually every promise he’s ever made.
“A senior White House administration official told the agency that Obama will on Friday call for an end to the National Security Agency’s collection...
Is the Apple iPhone 5 set to spy on people?
Apple who are the creators of the soon to be iPhone 5 has recently applied for patents which are to say the least of it controversial. These patents will be applied to things like your iPhone 5 and iPad as well as your Apple Mac computer. What does this do? This patent will be able to identify you and actually will be able to spy on you and even record your voice, take photos of where you are...