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Google promised to delete sensitive data. It logged my abortion clinic visit

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Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google

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Google to pay $60M for misleading representations

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Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically

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Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps

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Android and iOS data collection

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Apple manually boosted its 'Files' app ahead of 'Dropbox' in organic search [pdf]

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Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business

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Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

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Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data

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Google Play limiting Android 11 apps from seeing what’s installed on devices

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Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

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T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out

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Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

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Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings

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Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps

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Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

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Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)

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Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

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Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy first

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Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers

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More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

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iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers

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Google’s location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona

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Google Data Collection research

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Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions

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Google tracks your movements, like it or not

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Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones

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Multiple Android apps use combined permissions to siphon personal data

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iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much

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Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled

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Hundreds of Verizon customers are battling data over-limit fees

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Google’s become an obsessive stalker

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Google collects metadata from Android phones

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US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps

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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

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Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data

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Apple lied to public about Google Voice app rejection

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Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

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Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications

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Apple and Google Monitor Notifications. We Need Push Notification Alternatives

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Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices

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How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets

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Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)

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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android

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Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web

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No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data

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