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  • Kintsugi
  • November 3, 2023November 3, 2023

How to prevent apps from accessing your personal data

by The CREDO Team Smartphone apps can collect a whole lot of data about you: Your name and email address, location history, personal contacts, photos and videos, purchases, health and fitness data

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

8 Apps Security Experts Would Never Have on Their Phone

Lucie Turkel  Updated: Jan. 04, 2021 Google Assistant What’s App Facebook Messenger Certain VPNs Read more HERE

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 14, 2020November 14, 2020

Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps

By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning Nov. 11, 2020 Millions of people have migrated away from Facebook and Twitter since the election. As the companies have clamped down on mi

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NY Times

  • Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
  • DeSantis Designates CAIR, Muslim Advocacy Group, a ‘Terrorist Organization’
  • Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy and Ease Cost Concerns
  • Trump Plans $12 Billion Bailout to Aid Farmers Hit by Tariffs
  • Why Some Doctors Say There Are Cancers That Shouldn’t Be Treated

NPR

  • How many species are on Earth?
  • Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says
  • Elephant seals remember their enemies
  • This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
  • Your glitchy video calls may make people mistrust you

The Progressive

  • Broadview: Where the Border Never Ends
  • RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health
  • The Education Experiment Gone Wrong
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong
  • Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen

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FactCheck.org

  • Vance’s Misleading Claims on Housing Prices and Illegal Immigration
  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
  • Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth
  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.
  • Unpacking the FDA’s Black Friday Vaccine Memo

Snopes.com

  • Watch out for video claiming Hegseth was banned from family Christmas celebrations
  • Reporter told Trump 'I ask questions, not permission'?
  • Is TSA checking passengers' cellphones for 5 apps? Here's what we know
  • No evidence Gavin Newsom donated $12M to feed children because Obama asked
  • Be wary of images showing Jimmy Kimmel's 'final monologue' after Trump criticism

Tradeoffs

  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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