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Reddit and Linkedin apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Linkedin and Reddit both check your clipboard and copy and paste your clipboard contents with every keystroke - even when you’re in another app. Another set of potential privacy violators…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

TikTok seems to be copying and pasting your clipboard with every keystroke

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has revealed that TikTok is copying the contents of your clipboard with every keystroke. The new feature - called paste notifications - shows…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media

Facebook reversed cryptocurrency ad policy ahead of Libra announcement

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Facebook, the social media platform used by billions, had banned cryptocurrency related ads for a year and a half starting in January of 2018. During this time period, Facebook’s ad…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Social Media

Google, Facebook and many others are coming for your health data: watch out for your privacy

Updated on Nov 2, 2023 by Glyn Moody

Last week, Google announced that it would be buying Fitbit, valuing the 12-year-old company at $2.1 billion. Many have seen this as an attempt to boost Google's position in the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

How to unblock WhatsApp

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

How do you unblock WhatsApp if you are unable to use it on your internet? WhatsApp is blocked by default on many school or office networks, and also by some…

Categories: General Privacy News, Guides, Social Media

New treaty will allow UK to request data, not backdoor, from US social media companies like WhatsApp

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Social media apps like WhatsApp will be obligated to share what they share with the US with the UK under a proposed United States, United Kingdom treaty called the CLOUD…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

Researchers show that smart TVs are sending your private information back to third parties like Netflix and Facebook

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

While most people have long suspected that their smart TVs are spying on them, there is now definitive proof. Two new studies have highlighted that smart TVs are still not…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

Should apps share details of women’s menstruation and sex lives with Facebook and other sites? Some already do

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Back in January, Privacy News Online wrote about some important research from Privacy International. It found that 61% of the Android apps it investigated automatically transfer data to Facebook the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance

President Trump wants to use an executive order to make the FCC and FTC police social media censorship

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

New research confirms Kazakhstan is spying on connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, and more

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Kazakhstan is actively spying on its citizens' internet connections to Facebook, Twitter, VK, Instagram, Youtube, Google, along with many other sites. New research published by Ram Sundara Raman, Leonid Evdokimov,…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance
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