GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more. Continue reading GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

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… Continue reading Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today.

Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email ad… Continue reading You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads