Meta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience

Categories: News

Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Meta

Tags: facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: X

Tags: Youtube

Tags: TikTok

Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads.

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TikTok flooded with fake celebrity nude photo Temu referrals

Categories: Personal

Tags: TikTok

Tags: celeb

Tags: celebrity

Tags: fake

Tags: nude

Tags: nudes

Tags: scam

Tags: referral

Tags: temu

A bogus celebrity leaked photos scam linked to Temu referrals is doing the rounds on TikTok.

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Software company accused of illegally profiling millions of mobile phone users

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Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: BICS

Tags: Proximus

Tags: TeleSign

Tags: TikTok

Tags: trust score

Tags: data

A digital rights and privacy organization has filed a complaint against software company TeleSign for gathering and selling information on millions of mobile phone users.

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Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had “God mode” entry to US data

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Categories: Privacy

Tags: Yu

Tags: TikTok

Tags: ByteDance

Tags: CCP

Tags: influence

Tags: data access

Tags: loaded gun

A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has claimed in court documents that the Chinese Community Party (CCP) had access to TikTok data, despite the data being stored in the US.

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A week in security (April 3 – 9)

Categories: News

Tags: TikTok

Tags: Super FabriXss

Tags: Twitter

Tags: macOS malware

Tags: ransomware

Tags: 2023 State of Malware

Tags: Western Digital

Tags: Android

Tags: endpoint security

Tags: ChatGPT

Tags: K-12

Tags: IoT

Tags: Facebook

Tags: targeted advertising

Tags: Google

Tags: data theft

Tags: e-file

Tags: tax

Tags: Uber breach

The most interesting security related news from the week of April 3 – 9.

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