Popular dating sites and apps widely collect information from their users for match-making are also deploying that info for advertising. Axios Technology Reporter David McCabe explains what this means for data security and protection.
"The implications are wide-ranging," says McCabe. "The kind of data they could collect is very valuable."
According to a recent poll by SurveyMonkey and Axios, 37 percent of users are comfortable providing personal info to dating sites, compared to 20 percent who are not comfortable at all.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Mazie Hirono sent a letter to top officials at Twitter expressing their concerns over the platform's privacy policy.
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao are accused of misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating a slew of U.S. securities laws in a lawsuit filed by the SEC.
Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination.
Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with these apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned on Thursday.