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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think
Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…
Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission
Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.
Broadband providers told to explain how they handle consumer data
The FTC launched a broad inquiry to find out what data they collect, why, who they share it with, and how consumers can change or delete it.
Google needs breaking up, says news chief
And Oracle accused Google of creating shadow profiles of even non-users. Theirs are just two of 85 responses to an Australian inquiry.
Did you know you can see the ad boxes Facebook sorts us into?
…or that they can edit the (often inaccurate) pigeon-holes Facebook likes to put us in, a study found.
Phones are selling location data from “trusted” apps
Data brokers are tracking 200 million mobile devices in the US, updating locations up to 14,000 times a day, the New York Times has found.
Google to give marketers the ability to target us via email address
Customer Match will enable advertisers to get to us via our email addresses, which can be matched to signed-in users of its search engine, Gmail or YouTube.
Windows 10 is NOT spying on you, Microsoft says
…but Windows will continue to collect your data, be it about system and application crashes or personalization data collected by Cortana. 
Facebook: our cookies keep you safe from cyber terrorists!
Belgian data protection authority: You’re as bad as the NSA!!!