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Privacy

As gadgets and services get smarter, they need more data, and face the hard problem of keeping it safe. Data privacy has become a huge problem for Google, Facebook, Amazon, and any company using artificial intelligence to power its services — and a major sticking point for lawmakers looking to regulate. Here's all the news on data privacy and how it's changing tech.

Secret consumer score: what Airbnb, Yelp, and more are doing with your data

Facebook isn’t complying with privacy probe, California attorney general says

Apple’s new privacy pages are easier to read and look way better

Democrats propose new federal agency to fight back against tech privacy scandals

Hackers hijacked the capital’s surveillance cameras days before Trump’s inauguration and said it was easy

Amber Baldet on what blockchain technology can do for us beyond cryptocurrency

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How to delete your Siri history in iOS 13.2

A company that sold encrypted phones was run by crime lords

Twitter admits that it showed more ads to less popular users

In Hong Kong, protesters fight to stay anonymous

Ron Wyden wants Facebook to ‘mind your own business’ with new privacy bill

Nest is getting ready for the smart home’s Cambridge Analytica moment

Instagram’s latest security feature lets you better manage third-party app permissions

Apple’s Tencent privacy controversy is more complicated than it looks

It’s about the tension between online threats and privacy

The reflections in a pop star’s eyes told a selfie stalker exactly how to find her

Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows

FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data, court rules

Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads

Google has suspended its controversial ‘field research’ that allegedly scanned homeless people

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How to auto-delete your YouTube history

Cloudflare’s free mobile VPN is now available in its 1.1.1.1 app

To use Alexa, you have to trust Amazon

Amazon pushes Alexa privacy with new delete options

Amazon creates a huge alliance to demand voice assistant compatibility

Google is reducing how much audio it saves for human review

Firefox is testing a VPN, and you can try it right now

If Congress wants the FTC to be tougher on tech, it needs to pass a privacy law

Firefox’s latest version blocks third-party trackers by default for everyone

Google finally adds image blocking to Gmail on the iPhone

How to make sense of your fitness app’s privacy policy

Facebook will no longer scan user faces by default

Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery