Senator Warner calls on Zuckerberg to support market research consent rules

In response to TechCrunch’s investigation of Facebook paying teens and adults to install a VPN that lets it analyze all their phone’s traffic, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg. It admonishes Facebook for not spelling out exactly which data the Facebook Research app was collecting or giving users adequate information […]

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Facebook’s VPN app puts spotlight on kids’ consent

Facebook could face fresh scrutiny in Europe following a TechCrunch report on its use of a VPN app to monitor people’s smartphone activity — including teenagers as young as 13. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) told us it’s asked Facebook to provide more information on what data is collected via the market research program, codenamed ‘Project […]

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Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data

In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their phone in exchange for $20 per month. Apple tells TechCrunch that yesterday evening it revoked the Enterprise Certificate […]

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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]

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5 VPNs and password managers on sale in honor of International Data Security Day

Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone smart enough to know that gender is nothing but a social construct: Your attention, please.

It’s Data Privacy Day, y’all.
Recognized internationally, today’s “holiday” is meant to raise awareness about the importance …

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AWS launches WorkLink to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier

If your company uses a VPN and/or a mobile device management service to give you access to its intranet and internal web apps, then you know how annoying those are. AWS today launched a new product, Amazon WorkLink,  that promises to make this process significantly easier. WorkLink is a fully managed service that, for $5 […]

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Pay just £3.40 a month for StrongVPN with this Data Privacy Day special offer

We’ve already spoken about Data Privacy Day, and we are probably going to continue talking about it all week, because the date has sparked a massive influx of fantastic VPN deals. 
Data Privacy Day falls on Jan. 28, and to bring attention to the…

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Save almost £150 on IPVanish VPN’s cut-price deal celebrating Data Privacy Day

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In the words of IPVanish VPN, there’s a war for your data going on right now. 

IPVanish VPN and other leading Virtual Private Networks providers are on your side in this titanic battle. They hide your real IP address so that your online activity can’t be tracked, and help you break free from any regional restrictions on your surfing, meaning you can explore the internet in the purest way possible. They also support events like Data Privacy Day. 

An initiative by Stay Safe Online, Data Privacy Day is held annually on Jan. 28 with the aim of raising awareness about how consumer information is used, collected, and shared in society. IPVanish VPN is one of over 300 organisations committed to educating everyone on data privacy best practices and advocating for the protection of personal information online. Read more…

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Get 2 years of IPVanish on sale for 66% off during this limited VPN sale

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Did you know Jan. 28 is international Data Privacy Day? Celebrate the occasion by snatching a two-year subscription to IPVanish, on sale for 66% off during this limited VPN sale.

IPVanish is one of the best VPNs and can keep you safe from online hackers, scammers, and patent trolls looking to squeeze you out of money. During the sale, IPVanish is only $99 for a two-year subscription that’s billed biennially. Considering a typical year of IPVanish is $79.99, that’s a great deal. Plus, it works out to only $4.12 per month — or less than half of your Netflix subscription.

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LinkedIn now requires phone number verification for all users in China

LinkedIn’s China site looks and functions just like LinkedIn everywhere else, except now it asks users in the country to verify their identities through phone numbers. The American company is requiring both new and existing users with a Chinese IP address to link mobile phone numbers to their accounts, TechCrunch noticed this week. LinkedIn had […]

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