Dan Goodin reports: In March, researchers uncovered a troubling privacy grab by more than four dozen iOS apps including TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media and video-sharing phenomenon that has taken the Internet by storm. Despite TikTok vowing to curb the practice, it continues to access some of Apple users’ most [Read More…]
Another week, another leak. And this one was a sensitive one involving Aspire News App. The app was created by a U.S. non-profit, When Georgia Smiled. It was designed to appear to be a news app, but actually featured an emergency help function that would allow domestic abuses victims to [Read More…]
Zack Whittaker reports: Google said Wednesday it’s making a handful of privacy changes for users. In a blog post, the search giant said it’ll make it easier for users to go “incognito” and pause data collection as they use Google’s mobile apps. It’s also adding proactive account security recommendations to its [Read More…]
Jon Brodkin reports: Comcast is partnering with Mozilla to deploy encrypted DNS lookups on the Firefox browser, the companies announced today. Comcast’s version of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) will be turned on by default for Firefox users on Comcast’s broadband network, but people will be able to switch to other options [Read More…]