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A potentially surprising website reveals everything that Google thinks it knows about you. It includes the information about your age, gender, job and interests that the site has been able to work out as […]
Instagram has banned hundreds of accounts tied to the notorious “OGUsers“ forum, where members buy and sell stolen social media accounts. The company is also going after some of the forum‘s highest-profile members, threatening […]
YouTube‘s by-now-notorious takedown and demonetization systems are continuing to pick up speed, but also attract more attention as their harmful consequences expand to affect more and more independent creators on Google‘s globally-dominant video platform. […]
Google-owned YouTube has stripped the Epoch Times of its ability to monetize content on the platform, giving only vague reasons as to why. “YouTube demonetized the Epoch Times and related accounts last week,“ said […]
When you‘re on a roll, you‘re on a roll. Twitter suspended the founder of the Internet Accountability Project on Thursday from their platform. The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) is a leading voice in the […]
If you can’t access your iCloud account and several related services, know that you’re not the only one. As of 3:14 PM ET, Apple is working to resolve 10 outages. According to the company’s […]
OTTAWA—A new watchdog report says Canadian use of U.S. firm Clearview AI’s facial-recognition technology violated federal and provincial laws governing personal information. In a report today with three provincial counterparts, federal privacy commissioner Daniel […]
Android users are being targeted by a piece of malicious software which tricks users into downloading a fake app that also targets the devices of friends via WhatsApp. The so-called ‘worm’ can only infect […]
Facebook has shut down the Robin Hood Stock Traders group that has some 157,000 members, in the middle of a trading war between individual investors and hedge funds. Centering around companies like GameStop and […]
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the commercial version of the ubiquitous Defender antivirus and Microsoft’s top enterprise security solution, is currently having a bad day and labeling yesterday’s Google Chrome browser update as […]