phones
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Documents Reveal Google Made It Nearly Impossible To Hide Your Location Data
Google reportedly made it nearly impossible for smartphone users to keep their location data private, according to new un-redacted documents. If that wasn’t concerning enough, Google employees were even confused about it. According to the documents, which were revealed in relation to an Arizona lawsuit over data collection practices, Google executives and engineers were aware…
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Is Technology Making Me More Depressed?
At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a semi-efficient if error-prone method of trying to keep in touch with your parents. What it seems wholly unequipped to provide is “happiness.” Think of the most smartphone-dependent people you know. Do they seem happy to you?…
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Google Pixel 5 and 4a with 5G: Australian Price, Release Date and Everything You Need to Know [Updated]
Earlier this morning, Google held an event launching a whole slate of new hardware including its new flagship phone the Pixel 5 and another version of its mid-range model, the Pixel 4A with 5g. Here’s everything you need to know about both phones: Google Pixel 5 specs As it often goes, leaks about the Pixel…
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The Australian Government Wants to Ban Phones in Immigration Detention Centres
A bill giving the Home Affairs minister powers to ban mobile phones, SIM cards and internet-capable devices in immigration detention centres is the subject of harsh criticism by human rights and refugee advocacy groups. The bill, Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020, was introduced back in May and would see the…