In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.
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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!
Chrome 79 patched after Android WebView app chaos
Google has rushed out a fix for a bug in the Android version of Chrome that left some app users unable to access accounts or retrieve stored data.
Google to choke off ‘less secure applications’
If you’re entering a username and password to give an app access to a G Suite account, beware: you won’t be able to do it for much longer.
Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers
Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.
Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.
Google adds Verified SMS and anti-spam feature to Messages app
If webmail, WhatsApp and IM are killing SMS, someone might want to tell Google – as it continues to add new features to its Messages app.
YouTube bans malicious insults, veiled threats, harassment
The new policy addresses how coordinated online abuse often happens in real life: poisonous drips spanning multiple videos/comments.
Chrome 79 includes anti-phishing and hacked password protection
Version 79 of Chrome is out, and it promises to do a better job of protecting you against phishing sites and credential stuffing attacks.