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Data-Free Disneyland
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Oh, the Places Your Apple ID Will Go
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Apple sends DSID with iPhone analytics data, tests show
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Apple is tracking you even when its own privacy settings say not, research says
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TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
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Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones
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Grindr user data has been for sale for years
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Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
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TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
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Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
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An industry that unmasks people at scale
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Privacy Implications of Accelerometer Data [pdf]
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Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
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How does Brown University know where you are?
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Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads
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How I helped fix Canadaʼs Covid Alert app
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Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ data’ vs Facebook, Google
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CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks
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Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data
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Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers
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Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
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iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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What we know about you when you click on this article
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Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
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Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
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The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
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Privacy: Is That iPhone?
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iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
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iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
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Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data
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The Foursquare of today is a location data giant
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Confessions of a location data exec
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Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data
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Apple Is Removing 'Do Not Track' from Safari
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Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking
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Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
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Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms
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Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
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Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
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MoviePass CEO says the app tracks your location before and after movies
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Advanced Denanonymization through Strava
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Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools
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Transport for London plans to collect data from passengers' mobiles
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Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms
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Wading Through AccuWeather’s Response
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Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
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Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
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Reverse Engineering Proves Journalist Security App Is Not Secure
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Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users
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How Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
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Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data
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Stealing Your Address Book
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Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers
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How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters
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De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint
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IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
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SimpleGeo puts 20 million places in the public domain.
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Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
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A warrant showing the U.S. government is monitoring push notifications
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Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
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Inside a global phone spy tool monitoring billions
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iPhone apps harvest data when they send you notifications, researchers find
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FBI using push notification tokens to identify anonymous users
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Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules
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