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EP 246.5 Deep Dive. OverReach. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 10th., 2025
Meta and Yandex covertly tracked Android users through their apps, which listened silently on local ports to intercept browsing data and link online activities to user identities, evading common privacy measures like cookie deletion or Incognito Mode. Users can protect themselves by uninstalling these apps, switching to privacy-focused browsers (e.g., Firefox, Brave, DuckDuckGo), and closely managing device permissions.
Sonoma County faces criticism and a lawsuit from the ACLU for expanding drone surveillance beyond cannabis cultivation monitoring into widespread warrantless surveillance of…
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