Giorgio

Popular period-tracking app Flo Health shared users’ intimate health data—such as menstrual cycles and fertility information—with Google and Meta, allegedly for targeted advertising purposes, according to multiple class-action lawsuits filed in the US and Canada. Between 2016 and 2019, the developers of Flo Health shared intimate user data with companies including Facebook and Google, mobile […]

TechCrunch reports about a “bizarre app” inviting you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the data to AI companies. And if that’s not weird enough on its own, it’s ranking No. 2 in Apple’s US app store at the time of writing. The name of the app is Neon Mobile

A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn’t have been on the platform. The Chinese social media giant is also accused of collecting data on Canadian users without properly explaining what it does with that information, the watchdogs added. In a

Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested

This week on the Lock and Code podcast There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if you’re overweight, or if you smoke (or all three). The same company has also probably estimated—to the exact dollar—the amount you spend every year

A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media, according to BleepingComputer. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaborative initiative between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation, aimed at digitally preserving historically significant public radio and television programs from