Beyond writing a check, Google is committing to clearer language in its Play Store terms about what data gets collected passively — even when you're not actively using your phone. It will also fully cut off data collection when users switch off background data usage, something that wasn't guaranteed before. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Subscribe to Tom's Guide on YouTube and follow us on TikTok.
Google settles Android class action lawsuit for $135 million with payouts to 100 million users — here's how to claim your share…game, Joshua can rant about it—that's a guarantee. Sign in to your GameRant account Thanks to the Free-to-Keep Promotion, Steam users can claim, download, and keep a 2017…
Epic Games Store Users Have Until May 28 To Claim 4 Free Games About Adventuring
…down X’s claims about its GDPR compliance efforts ensuring consumer protection. “The Irish Data Protection Commission’s 2024 formal inquiry into X Corp.’s use of user data to train the…
…This would have involved implementing invasive technologies for every user worldwide. "Similarly, the NYAG demanded that Valve collect more personal data about our users to do additional age verification - even though most…
Signups, silence, and a suspicious text: users joined GTFOICE.org to protest ICE and woke up to messages claiming their data was sent to federal agencies. Just four days ago, Project Salt Box’s Michael Wriston and Defian…
Dirty Frag is the recent Linux local privilege escalation PoC around page-cache write primitives. The upstream project describes two paths: xfrm/ESP and RxRPC. The Kubernetes question I wanted to answer was narrower than…
Update: Dashlane has just comfirmed on X that no data has been compromised. Atleast thats what people mention under my posts. I can’t find this post on X whatsoever. People also claim to have recieved an email about this…
Interesting new research you may have heard of on attacking large audio language models. The attack is called AudioHijack and the part worth paying attention to is that adversarial clips built against open models transfe…
I co-founded a successful security company close to the Mythos ecosystem and have spoken with participants in the know and I am deeply concerned. We, collectively, have answers for some but not all of the problems ahead …
Meta has misled users about scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, lawsuit says The company is being sued by the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America. By Karissa Bell April 21, 2026 3…
Steam Users Have Until June 3 to Claim 2019 Multiplayer Game for Free
…We first heard rumors about a possible shutdown back in January. OnePlus India CEO Robin Liu publicly denied these claims at the time. OnePlus then confirmed earlier this week that Liu had…
…Music copyright holders claimed that once Cox was informed that specific users repeatedly infringed copyrights, it should have terminated their accounts. A jury agreed with Sony in 2019, hitting Cox with a…
…long before most people thought about the privacy of their messages. But recently, Texas challenged the app’s claim of EE2E, claiming Meta can read user messages as plaintext. The state's…
…Apple Downgrading iPhone 18 to Cut Costs Apple is downgrading the planned specifications of the standard iPhone 18 to cut costs, a leaker claims. In a new post on Weibo, the user…
