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Some popular apps send sensitive info like user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed to Facebook through the company's analytics SDK — Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo orders two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook may be collecting users' health data and other sensitive info — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook Inc … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
What to expect at MWC 2019: new flagships from Sony, LG and Chinese companies, foldable phones from Huawei and others, return of Hololens, and a lot of 5G hype — 5G's early steps will continue, and the Galaxy Fold could get some competition — In the next few days …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Leaked banner on display at MWC 2019 gives a sneak peek at the Huawei Mate X, the company's first foldable smartphone with the screen folding outwards — Just the other day Samsung officially revealed the Galaxy Fold, it's first device with a foldable display.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A few months after launching Focals smart glasses, North lays off 150 employees; company website says it employed “over 400 people” — North Labs, the company behind the Focals smart glasses, laid off 150 employees yesterday. The company employed “over 400 people,” …
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Facebook has removed its Onavo VPN app from Google Play Store, will stop pulling user data from it for market research, and will eventually shut it down — Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Source: Apple to close both of its retail stores in the Eastern District of Texas in a bid to deprive patent trolls of a jurisdiction notorious for its lawsuits — Apple plans to close both of its retail stores within the Eastern District of Texas in a few months from now in an effort …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy — Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don't have a privacy policy. — More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask users …
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Investigation shows how CQ Roll Call, a D.C. media firm, may be responsible for hundreds of thousands of fake anti-net-neutrality comments on FCC's site in 2017 — Millions of records that the FCC's top lawyer once fought to hold back from state law enforcement officials now serve as key evidence …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs plan to start issuing a joint credit card in spring, which will be paired with special money management features in Wallet app — Apple and Goldman Sachs are readying a joint credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Ray Ozzie is working on a new startup, Blues Wireless, which started trials with AT&T on a module that securely connects IoT devices to the cloud — Ray Ozzie, the man who created Lotus Notes and helped usher Microsoft into the cloud era has a new goal: helping devices in the home … | Grace Dobush / Fortune: |
BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing — When Daimler and BMW announced a plan to fuse carsharing services Car2Go and DriveNow in March 2018, it was largely …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M — Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung says it will extend Bixby button remapping to all Galaxy phones on Android Pie in a future software update, after confirming the feature for the S10 — That includes the S8, S9, and Note line — The Bixby button saga has been an ongoing blemish on an otherwise sterling smartphone record … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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