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Despite using social media platforms every day, we all know that they may be bad for our digital privacy — even if you’re using security software like the best VPN apps.
But how bad are they, exactly? This is what the team at Incogni, a data removal service provider, set out to discover.
After looking into the top 15 most popular social networks, researchers uncovered stark differences in how these platforms handle our personal data.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Facebook and LinkedIn came out as the worst when it comes to protecting our privacy.
Reddit, Snapchat, and Pinterest (in order) are the platforms representing the lowest risk.
Keep reading as I go through some of the biggest takeaways and some tips to boost your social media privacy.
California Schools Must Curb Student Phone Use under New Law
School districts in California will have to create rules restricting student smartphone use under a new law that the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, signed on Monday.
The law requires districts to pass rules by July 1, 2026 to limit or ban students from using smartphones on campus or while they are under the supervision of school staff.
Districts will have to update their policies every five years after that.
The legislation makes California the latest state to try to curb student phone access in an effort to minimize distractions in the classroom and address the mental health impacts of social media on children.
“This new law will help students focus on academics, social development and the world in front of them, not their screens, when they’re in school,” Newsom said in a statement.
How Google Made the Ad Tech Industry Revolve around Itself
Google’s mission statement seems made to evoke warm and fuzzy feelings about how its products help everyone. “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Google says on its corporate site.
The company used to have an even more saccharine motto: “Don’t be evil.”
But the decisions Google made in growing its massive advertising technology business were cold-blooded and carefully crafted to primarily benefit itself, the Department of Justice argued during the first two weeks of its antitrust trial.
The U.S. Department of Justice finished arguing its case-in-chief on Friday in a Virginia federal court, and now it’s Google’s turn to haul in witnesses, including U.S. government agencies that use the company’s products…
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