Internet privacy

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)“Okay Google… Set a reminder to remind me to remind you to stop your location reminder feature.”“...Done.”Thanks,Google. Well, if you go to the Google Assistant Help page, it now says that the ability to create reminders on the app “is going away soon.” Additionally, the ability to assign a reminder to someone else is also going the way of the dodo.9to5Google first reported that the tech giant’s plans to ax location based reminders on Google Assistant-enabled devices, such as user…

Tim Horton cafe in Manhattan.Photo: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images)Canadian regulators on Wednesday found that Tim Hortons—a popular fast-food chain owned by the same multinational company as Burger King—changed its mobile app in 2019 to track and collect sensitive location data on its customers.An investigation led by Canada’s privacy commissioner found that, indeed, with the help of a U.S.-based company called Radar, Tim Hortons was able to collect data on its customers’ locations “as often as every few…

Photo: VDB Photos (Shutterstock)In the decade-spanning conflict between the need for online privacy and efforts to stop fake accounts from accessing sensitive info, the tech monolith that is Microsoft is putting its massive weight behind the creation of standardized online identities. In its announcement Tuesday, Microsoft talked up its Entra management systems that includes Verified ID, promoting itself as a quick way of giving sensitive identification to entities thatneed to verify that you are who you say you are.In…