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PSA: T-Mobile will start sharing customer info with advertisers unless you opt out

The Verge

T-Mobile will soon start sharing certain customer data with marketers to provide more relevant ads. T-Mobile will soon put a new privacy policy into effect that will allow it to share certain kinds of customer information with third-party advertisers. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Google Announces Links within Mobile Apps

CTOvision

For websites with lots of Internet traffic, turning visits into profits with successful advertising is immensely important. Because we increasingly access online content through apps on our mobile devices, traditional advertising models that rely on using search engines and surfing the web may be on the way out. By ShannonPerry.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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T-Mobile data breach exposed the personal info of more than 47 million people

The Verge

T-Mobile has released more information about its most recent data breach , and while the company’s findings fall short of the reported 100 million records, the numbers are staggering. In its last earnings report ( PDF ), T-Mobile said it had over 104 million customers. T-Mobile found out about the breach based on a forum post.

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It’s 10 p.m. — Do You Know Where Your Data Is Going?

Forrester IT

Last week, The Washington Post did a deep dive on how a publication used “commercially available” mobile data to out a Catholic priest as a Grindr user and visitor of a gay bar, ultimately forcing him to resign. Some of this data was sourced from Grindr; a Grindr spokesperson told the Post that “[the] company […]

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Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private user information with advertisers

The Verge

million, by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority for illegally sharing private information about Grindr users to advertisers, according to The New York Times. One of those advertisers was MoPub, Twitter’s mobile ads company.) Grindr will be fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or about $11.7

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T-Mobile Bought Leaked Customer Data, Failed to Contain Incident

SecureWorld News

In this case, T-Mobile had to make a decision on how to act after hackers stole data of roughly 30 million customers. After publicly acknowledging the data breach, the telecommunications giant hired a third-party security vendor to investigate the incident. T-Mobile hired Mandiant to buy back stolen data.

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