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Report: Apps Selling Your Location Data Like Mad
by Joe Kukura • 12/10/2018 3:32 pm

One app could be selling your exact location data to as many as 40 different companies, according to a new analysis from the New York Times.

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Google Is Watching You (Even More Than You...
by Peter-Astrid Kane • 11/21/2017 5:32 pm

Although Google vows to stop the practice by the end of the month, Android phones report location information back to the company — even when location services are off.

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Sans Steve Jobs, Apple Is Becoming Just Another...
Dan Mitchell • 10/30/2012 10:30 am

After Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about whether the company could ever really be the same. Some said Jobs' DNA…

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Forget Traffic School, This New App Will Help...
Erin Sherbert • 05/17/2012 9:02 am

You know how impossible it is to get out of a speeding ticket when it's your word against a cop's. Well, now there's an…

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San Francisco Bars to Install Creepy Facial Detection...
Erin Sherbert • 05/14/2012 1:33 pm

Update May 16: Leilani Brennan, owner and operator of Eve Lounge, claims she had talked with SceneTap about the technology, but has no plans…

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The Instagram iPhone/Android Debate Smacks of Insufferable Privilege
Sylvie Kim • 04/11/2012 10:30 am

When I saw Buzzfeed's collection of irate and infantile tweets in reaction to the announcement that hip photo filter app Instagram would no longer…

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Author Jolie O'Dell on Android Photography, Hook-Up Apps,...
Anna Pulley • 04/11/2012 9:30 am

Jolie O'Dell is one of my favorite San Francisco writers. In the brief time we've known each other, we have eaten lunch at a…

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