GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook
GoodRx – a mobile app that saves US consumers money on prescription drugs – has apologized and sworn to do better after a Consumer Reports investigation found…
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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Facebook is suing the data analytics firm OneAudience for allegedly developing a malicious, social-media-profile-grabbing software development kit (SDK) and…
Gojek uses data tools for insight into untapped customers
As Gojek Group, an on-demand multi-service startup from Indonesia, races to scale up its presence in Asean, data is a powerful tool for enabling insight into…
Boosting AI’s smarts in the absence of training data
AI (artificial intelligence) is the most perfect field of dreams in modern culture. If you ask the average person on the street what AI runs on, they probably…
Facebook blocks mobile app advertisers from using device-level data
Facebook quietly updated its terms of service for its Advanced Mobile App Measurement program in January, barring mobile app advertisers from using…
Google Advises Android Developers to Encrypt App Data On Device
Google today published a blog post recommending mobile app developers to encrypt data that their apps generate on the users’ devices, especially when they use…
Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is suing Google over its alleged slurping of students’ data off of the free Chromebooks it passes out to needy…
Self-driving car companies complain California test data may mislead
Developers of self-driving cars are amping up criticism of a California reporting requirement on test data, saying the data could mislead, as the state…
Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency
The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen. Gillibrand, the US senator for New York,…
500 Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Private Data of 1.7 Million Users
Google removed 500 malicious Chrome extensions from its Web Store after they found to inject malicious ads and siphon off user browsing data to servers under…