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The Privacy-Setting Edition Saturday, August 17, 2024

Complicated App Settings Are A Threat To User Privacy, by Joseph K. Nwankpa, The Conversation

The key step to achieving privacy in a world of pervasive digital connections is to take ownership of your data and privacy. As mobile apps continue to access sensitive information about users, it’s important to recognize that app providers and owners may not have the incentives to provide the most robust privacy-setting practices. Indeed, failing to effectively manage your app permissions and privacy settings can increase the risk that your data will be exposed to third parties, including people with malicious intent.

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This Read-Later App That Lets You Highlight And Take Notes, by Khamosh Pathak, Lifehacker

It's a natively-designed read-later and link collection app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It syncs securely using iCloud and can easily add and show articles from anywhere. But the best part is that it comes with convenient research aids usually reserved for note-taking apps.

‘Dark Matter’ Renewed For Season 2 At Apple TV+, by Peter White, Deadline

Apple TV+ viewers might get the chance to finally find out how Dark Matter’s interdimensional travel works and which universe the main characters ended up in after the streamer renewed the sci-fi drama for a second season.

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However, Blake Crouch, author of the book that the series is based on and creator, showrunner and executive producer of the series, will have to come up with new stories as there is no source material on the bookstands.

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Why Signing Up For A Free Trial Could Take Away Your Rights To A Jury Trial, by Tierney Sneed, CNN

Disney joins other companies such as Airbnb and Walmart that are using increasingly aggressive strategies in attempts to steer lawsuits they face from consumers into arbitration, a private legal process viewed as disadvantaging plaintiffs. Customers more and more must agree to contracts with sweeping arbitration clauses to use their services, but the consequences can be larger than they can be expected to comprehend.

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I guess I cannot sue Disney either?

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