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Companies seem to have found a workaround for Apple'sle's App Tracking Transparency feature, to continue collecting user data for targeted advertisements. Here is how the new form of data collection is working, compromising the level of user privacy that Apple promised during the rollout of the privacy policy.

Companies seem to have found a workaround for Apple'sle's App Tracking Transparency feature, to continue collecting user data for targeted advertisements. Here is how the new form of data collection is working, compromising the level of user privacy that Apple promised during the rollout of the privacy policy.

O do this massive bulk collection of all americans phone meta data that means we are talking about phone numbers, the calls -- the callers locations, the length of the phone calls, but not the content, they are not listening in on those calls. thats what will expire at midnight tonight or early tomorrow morning, what expires, but not just that, also roving wiretaps. at midnight, they could lose, if they dont extend this lawmaker lose the ability to track terror suspects who are frequently changi...

House. what a beautiful day on this friday before memorial day weekend. its time now for the must-read opinion pages. im going to take this one from "the new york times" which writes in part this. a year ago it would have been unimaginable for the house to pass a bill to curtail the governments abusive surveillance practices. the documents leaked by edward snowden finally shocked lawmakers from both parties into action producing promises that they would stop the government from collecting teleph...

Obviously the oscars. its too bad they cant collect some of this water because the drought will remain after the flood threats. heres what you need to pay attention to today beginning with deciding when to pull coalition troops out of afghanistan. th nato and the u.s. military are weighing two options. waiting for karzai to leave office or a plan for a complete withdrawal by december. the out going director of the nsa is suggesting the agency could make do with less phone data collection. he...

where they only talk about one side needing to de-escalate. this time both sides. >> that is the ukraine, now back to james clapper, director of national intelligence, made these candid remarks about the phone data collection by the government. this is what he said in this interview here. he said, "had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldnt have had the problem we had with the explosive public reaction." it is worth pointing out, phone data collection proc...

He also called the governments phone data collection almost orwellian. president obama said the information was collecting information on who called who and where. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. thats not what this program is about. >> reporter: and that its kept america safe. >> we know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information. >> reporter: but judge leon said there is an utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented bec...