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TikTok’s US takeover triggers massive privacy shift: New terms allow tracking of exact GPS, race, and health data

TikTok privacy policy update forced U.S. users to accept new terms, raising concerns about precise GPS tracking and sensitive ...
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Google to pay $1.4 billion in unauthorized biometric data collection and geo-tracking lawsuits

Google will pay its biggest ever state settlement over data privacy issues The company had been tracking users' geolocation without consent It was also collecting biometrics and incognito searches ...

TikTok quietly expands location tracking and ad targeting for US users

The update came days after ByteDance, TikTok's Beijing-based parent company, spun out a new US TikTok entity as part of a federal agreement designed to ease ...
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Google will pay Texas $1.4B to settle claims over user data collection

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state's attorney general announced Friday. Attorney General Ken Paxton described the ...
Android

Google Fined $425 Million for Tracking Users Who Said ‘No’

Google has been ordered to pay a $425 million fine following a privacy trial that found it collected user data even when tracking was disabled. The company plans to appeal the ruling, calling it a ...

Apple Beats California Privacy Law Claims in Data Tracking Suit

Apple Inc. defeated claims that it violated California privacy law when it allegedly collected user data from its in-house ...
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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual ...