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fromwww.bbc.com
3 days ago

TikTok US venture to collect precise user location data

TikTok's new US joint venture has made changes to its privacy policy that include expanding the type of location data the company can collect from its 200 million American users. The new policy was published after investors closed a deal with TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance on Thursday to run the popular short-form video app's business in the US. The new joint venture said in its updated privacy terms that it may now "collect precise location data, depending on your settings"
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fromWhoWhatWhy
5 days ago

Saturday Hashtag: #TheDataEconomyThreat - WhoWhatWhy

Many popular smartphone apps collect and sell precise personal data, enabling commercial brokers and government agencies to access Americans' private digital activities without consent.
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fromWIRED
5 days ago
US politics

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
5 days ago
Privacy technologies

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
5 days ago
US politics

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

fromWIRED
5 days ago
Privacy technologies

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations

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fromThe Drum
1 week ago

Forget the cookie - mobile network data provides next level consumer insight

Mobile network data provides privacy-first, highly accurate, and comprehensive audience insights because operators continuously collect location and usage information.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
1 month ago

Bedrock Adopts LocID to Solve IP Signal Instability, Enabling Clearer, More Reliable Audience Insights & Activation

LocID provides a stable, privacy-safe location identifier that keeps IP-based identity signals consistent across campaigns, improving measurement, reach, and cross-channel activation.
fromTheregister
2 months ago

X promptly catches fire after rolling out location feature

Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read.
Privacy technologies
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Snapchat to let US advertisers track when customers visit their stores

Snapchat will provide anonymized location data and a Snap to Store tool to US advertisers to measure how Snapchat campaigns drive in-store visits.
EU data protection
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds | TechCrunch

Commercially sold mobile location histories enabled easy tracking of top EU officials despite stringent European data protection laws.
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fromThe Cipher Brief
3 months ago

The Hidden National Security Risk in Smart Cities

Smart-city sensors and data brokerage practices expose continuous, location-linked personal and sensitive information of U.S. military and intelligence personnel, posing national security risks.
EU data protection
fromEuractiv
3 months ago

Ireland's data scandal put homes, clinics, and bases on the map - for sale | Euractiv

Weak GDPR enforcement in Ireland allowed near-real-time phone location data of tens of thousands to be sold online, enabling tracking from sensitive sites back to likely homes.
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