Read original article here. By Alfred Ng 9/1/2020 With the coronavirus pandemic pushing schools online out of public health concerns, parents and teachers are turning to digital alternatives like apps to bridge…
Read the original article here. By Chris Mills Rodrigo 8/28/20 Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) on Friday urged regulators to probe popular fertility app Premom after an investigation found significant data vulnerabilities. The…
Read the original article here. By Molly Lyons 8/28/20 Senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to look into a fertility app that’s allegedly engaged in shady data sharing practices. Premom paints a…
Read the original article here. By Kim Lyons 08/20/20 A fertility app that helps women monitor their cycles when hoping to become pregnant was sharing user data with several Chinese…
Read the original article here. By Whitney Kimball 08/20/20 In a cruel but totally predictable twist, an app that all but guaranteed pregnancy within nine months or-your-money-back was too good to be true.…
Read the original article here. By Tonya Riley August 20, 2020 at 7:30 a.m. EDT Fertility app Premom says it offers more than a half-million users a “simple, effective and affordable solution for…
Read the full piece here. By Kevin Poulsen and Robert McMillan 08/11/20 TikTok skirted a privacy safeguard in Google’s Android operating system to collect unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices, data that allows…
Read the original article here. By TIM STARKS 07/06/2020 The push to use smartphone apps to track the spread of coronavirus is creating a potential jackpot for hackers worldwide— and the…
Read the original article here. By STEVEN OVERLY and MOHANA RAVINDRANATH 06/10/2020 07:55 PM EDT The global rush to halt the coronavirus led countries like Australia and South Korea to launch smartphone apps…
Read the original article here. An analysis of more than 100 Covid-19 apps by the International Digital Accountability Council found that many fell short of best practices for privacy and…