"We're not against digital advertising," Cook said. "I think digital advertising is going to thrive in any situation, because more and more time is spent online, less and less is spent on linear TV. And digital advertising will do well in any situation. The question is, do we allow the building of this detailed profile to exist without your consent?"
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- https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/12/tim-cook-says-apple-isnt-against-digital-ads-wants-user-control-and-transparency
The leaked phone numbers reveal Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was using Signal.
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- https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/leaked-phone-number-of-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-he-is-on-signal-1787396-2021-04-05
A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.
The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.
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- https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4
Ministers are considering forcing Facebook to implement a backdoor to allow security agencies and police to read the contents of messages sent across its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram chat services.
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- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/01/uk-may-force-facebook-services-to-allow-backdoor-police-access
LINE is a popular messenger with over 80 million users in Japan. The service, which is becoming a daily necessities and also has many government services, was found to have stored personal information on servers in China and South Korea. The terms of use only stated that the data would be stored on a server abroad, and it was unclear which country it was in. What's more, it turns out that four technicians had access to name and phone number information 32 times on a Chinese server. Information on LINE Pay was also placed on the Korean server.
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- https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210323/k10012931491000.html
