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Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online

31 January 2022

Thousands of tweets every day expose other users’ date of birth, which could help criminals access their private accounts
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on November 5, 2018 shows a woman passing a booth of Google at the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on . (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

What does Google's new cookie replacement mean for online privacy?

27 January 2022

Google has a new plan to replace cookies, the files that track us when we browse the internet, but it is controversial with advertisers and privacy campaigners

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