News & Reviews:   data collection

Privacy is a topic that many are concerned with. It's important enough that the US government made Mark Zuckerberg attend a congress session to explain Facebook's policies regarding data collection. That's probably why Meta is launching a new Privacy Center.

Most of us are not aware of how much data is being collected from us. But fortunately, researchers consider that a topic interesting enough to study and have managed to gain some insights. In this case, it's related to data being collected by Android and iOS.

Yesterday, we wrote about how Facebook is attacking Apple for changing their ad-tracking feature. The first one was about claiming the upcoming iOS's App Tracking Transparency is about profit, not privacy which hurts SMEs businesses (we very much doubt so), now they are doing it again with a different angle saying it can make the Internet worse. 

If you're an Apple fan, you might have come across a piece of news about Facebook attacking Apple about ad-tracking. In fact, they bought a full-page newspaper ads column to address the issue about their policy and boy, we got ourselves some drama here. Apple also just responded but in case you missed it, here's what happened. 

By now, you should have heard the news about TikTok facing a ban thanks to US President Trump due to 'spying'. It may sound ridiculous but the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) just posted news that TikTok may have violated Google's privacy policy for tracking MAC addresses from Android users.