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Location Data, Consent and the App Economy: What Kochava and Meta Really Tell Us

Mark Rasch | June 2, 2026 | location data, Meta, Privacy

Kochava tells companies what regulators expect: Affirmative express consent, consumer-requested use, supplier assessment, sensitive-location suppression, downstream accountability, withdrawal rights and deletion. Meta tells plaintiffs what courts may demand: Specific allegations showing unauthorized ...

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TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand

TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy ...

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Deepfake Fraud, Data Brokers Tracking Military Personnel

Tom Eston | November 25, 2024 | biometrics, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Data Privacy, deepfake, deepfakes, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Fraud, Germany, Information Security, Infosec, Location, location data, military, pirates, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privateers, Scams, security, Strava, surveillance, technology, Weekly Edition

In Episode 356, Tom and Kevin discuss the increasing role of deepfake technology in bypassing biometric checks, accounting for 24 percent of fraud attempts. The show covers identity fraud issues and explores ...

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The Temu app on a smartphone screen peeking out from a pocket

Temu is Malware — It Sells Your Info, Accuses Ark. AG

Chinese fast-fashion-cum-junk retailer “is a data-theft business.” ...

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Tile/Life360 Breach: ‘Millions’ of Users’ Data at Risk

Location tracking service leaks PII, because—incompetence? Seems almost TOO easy ...

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Apple API Allows Wi-Fi AP Location Tracking

Privacy FAIL: Apple location service returns far more data than it should—to people who have no business knowing it—and without your permission ...

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FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 million, Google’s Fight Against Malicious Apps

Tom Eston | May 6, 2024 | apps, ATT, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, fcc, fines, google, Google Play Store, Information Security, Infosec, location data, malicious apps, Mobile, Play Store, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, T-Mobile, technology, User Location Data, verizon, Weekly Edition, wireless

In episode 328, Tom and Kevin discuss two major cybersecurity and privacy news stories. The first topic covers the FCC issuing fines to major US wireless carriers for sharing users’ real-time location ...

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An old-school telephone, the like of which Millenials have never seen. Also: Get off my lawn.

FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?

Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...

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InMarket is Second Data Broker to Settle with FTC This Month

Jeffrey Burt | January 22, 2024 | Data Brokers, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), location data

For the second time this month, the Federal Trade Commission is banning a data broker from selling or licensing precise location data without getting the consumer’s consent. Under the 14-page FTC order, ...

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TikTok ‘Will’ Spy on US Citizens — Say Sources

Richi Jennings | October 21, 2022 | Bytedance, CCP, china, China saw how successful Russia was with Facebook, Forbes, GPS, location data, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Tik Tok, TikTok

TikTok parent ByteDance is planning to track the location of certain targeted individuals on U.S. soil, using a specialist Chinese team ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On