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Find the 7 interesting developer stories on topic Privacy

What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.
mashable.com · Jan 13, 2021

With end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages, and no data collection, there's a lot to love about this privacy-oriented messaging app.

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Are you protected against online tracking? The EFF's Cover Your Tracks site has the answer - gHacks Tech News
ghacks.net · Dec 28, 2020

Cover Your Tracks is an online test by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to determine how well a browser is protecting user data against online tracking.

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Download All Pictures and Videos from Google Photos
online-tech-tips.com · Dec 20, 2020

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At Least 20 VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps With 35 Million Downloads Actually Monitored Users' Phones
gizmodo.com · Mar 10, 2020

At least 20 ad-blocking and virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by analytics firm Sensor Tower may have been secretly spying on users’ phones, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation on Monday.

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New WhatsApp Alternative
fossbytes.com · Mar 09, 2020

Session is a new open-source messenger app that addresses this issue and doesn't require your phone number to work. Session is technically a fork of another quite popular private messenger Signal. It is available for Android, iOS as well as PC.

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It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
nytimes.com · Dec 23, 2019

ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.

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Stop Using Avast and AVG Plugins Right Now
gizmodo.com · Dec 05, 2019

Two browsers have yanked Avast and AVG online security extensions from their web stores after a report revealed that they were unnecessarily sucking up a ton of data about users’ browsing history.

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