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What’s the best location to set my VPN when torrenting?
A VPN encrypts data in transit, including P2P traffic, shielding it from third parties, including your ISP, hackers, and snoopers. This makes some VPN users think it doesn’t matter which server location they connect to. Yet different countries have varying laws about copyright and torrenting. Furthermore, some torrenting sites are blocked in specific countries. Another consideration is that servers closer…
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Build 27813 for Windows 11 removes location tracking feature in Canary Channel
Microsoft is now rolling out the Windows 11 build 27813 in the Canary Channel of the Windows Insider Program. This is a small update with some improvements and fixes, but it also hides some visual changes in the Settings app. According to the official changes, build 27813 for Windows 11 removes the “Location History” feature that Microsoft used to track…
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How to share your location on Android (including Samsung Galaxy)
Do you need to know how to share your location from an Android smartphone? Are you lost somewhere in need of a friend to pick you up and have no idea how to share your location with someone? Fortunately, that’s easy to do on Android. For example, you can use Google Maps to quickly share your location through any messaging…
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Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows
Microsoft announced the deprecation of the Location History feature from Windows, which let applications like the Cortana virtual assistant to fetch location history of the device. By deprecating and removing the feature means that the data will no longer be saved locally and the setting will disappear from the operating system (Windows 10 and 11). “We are deprecating and removing…
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How to restore the default location of user folders in Windows
Did you move the default user folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc) somewhere else? Did you change your mind and want them back to their initial location? Have you set up OneDrive, and you noticed that it changed the location of your Documents folder? Do you want to restore the default folder locations for Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Videos, or other user…
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This Subaru Hack Exposed Location Data and Allowed Remote Access
We know that cars are better connected than ever before, which is great when you want to remember where you parked or start defrosting the vehicle windows while you’re still in bed—but this modern tech comes with security and privacy concerns, as a new hack of Subaru cars and their Starlink software has shown. Security researchers Sam Curry and Shubham…
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Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person’s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord. While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what geographic region a person lives in and monitor…
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45 million Americans allegedly had their location data collected and sold by this top insurance firm
If you’re asked to enable location data after downloading an app, there’s a good chance your whereabouts are being tracked. However, what happens when a company collects this data and then sells it? According to a new lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, insurance company Allstate allegedly did exactly that when it unlawfully collected, used and sold data on…
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Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars
For months, the location information of around 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak, according to a report from the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The leak reportedly stemmed from the software running inside Volkswagen vehicles and could’ve allowed a bad actor to trace a driver’s exact movements, as noted by Electrek. A whistleblower first…
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Share Your AirTag’s Location With Your Airline
AirTags are pretty great. They let you keep tabs on things that have a habit of going missing, like keys and wallets, and other items that are targets for theft, like bags and bikes. Of course, sometimes a bag doesn’t go missing because of theft. One popular use for these tiny trackers is for tracking missing luggage: People will throw…
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