Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]
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Musk Admits to Making It Harder to Read News on X We only post blogs to Twitter anymore to support our current followers. Musk wants you to upload your content to Twitter so that he controls it and you never leave the platform. If you include a link in a post, it will be deprioritized. […]
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Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
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Even God is Into Crypto A Colorado based online pastor has been charged with selling worthless crypto. He said “the lord” told him to give his followers 10x return. He also said the lord told him to remodel his house with some of the money. I can’t make this stuff up. Credit: Coin Telegraph Feds […]
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Regulators Going After Crypto Firms A number of crypto firms have felt the sting of regulators recently. The most recent one is Genesis Global Trading. New York’s DFS fined them $8 million and required them to surrender their license for failure to comply with money laundering and other laws. Of course, a key purpose for […]
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The FTC announced today its first ever settlement with a data broker for selling location data. The FTC alleged that the data broker, Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, sold precise consumer location data and allowed third parties to track visits to health care providers, houses of worship and other sensitive destinations. The FTC claims […]
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