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Screenshot: BetterHelpThe Federal Trade Commission is poised to ban the mental health app BetterHelp from sharing medical information with Facebook, Snapchat, and other online advertisers. A proposed order issued Thursday includes a $7.8 million fine and limits the ways BetterHelp can share mental health data going forward. It’s part of a new push by the FTC to reign in the internet’s rampant problems with health privacy.“When a person struggling with mental health issues reaches out for help, they do so in a moment of…

Photo: Sean Gallup / Staff (Getty Images)Joe Biden gave federal agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from government devices earlier this week. Until now, most politicians intent on punishing TikTok have focused solely on banning the app itself, but, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters, federal agencies must also “prohibit internet traffic from reaching the company.” That’s a lot more complicated than it sounds. Gizmodo has learned that tens of thousands of apps—many which may already be installed on federal employees’…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Of all the things that can get in the way of summer camp, one of the biggest is not just anxiety among children worried about what camp will be like, but rather parental anxiety over whether the camp will be caring and safe for their child. Separation, along with related worries like an inability…

WhatsApp has announced three new features and improvements to its app on Android. These include document captions, longer group subjects and descriptions, the option to share up to 100 media files. These features are now available to all users who download the latest version of WhatsApp for Android from the Google Play Store. The social media platform recently rolled out a beta version of WhatsApp for iOS that allowed testers to share up to 100 media files at once, raising the previous limit that…

iPhone 14 and Apple Watch users are facing problems with its fancy new crash detection feature. It was launched last year on the iPhone 14 and the latest Apple Watch Series 8, Ultra, and Apple Watch SE 2022. It detects a severe car crash and automatically calls emergency services in case the user fails to respond within 20 seconds. However, many of these are false alarms and these have not amused emergency responders at all. In fact, the situation has become so bad that emergency dispatchers are flagging this shocking…

Photo: DCStockPhotography (Shutterstock)The Federal Trade Commission took historic action against the medication discount service GoodRx Wednesday, issuing a $1.5 million fine against the company for sharing data about users’ prescriptions with Facebook, Google, and others. It’s a move that could usher in a new era of health privacy in the United States.“Digital health companies and mobile apps should not cash in on consumer’s extremely sensitive and personally identifiable health information,” said Samuel Levine,…

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NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the…

The Soyuz MS-22 crew ship is pictured docked to the Rassvet module. In the background, the Prichal docking module is attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Credit: NASA<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the…

Xiaomi has reportedly begun sending out invites to media professionals for its Mobile World Congress (MWC) event scheduled to be held in Barcelona from February 27 until March 2 this year. Much has been speculated about what the Chinese electronics and smartphone manufacturer has in store for the MWC 2023 event. However, the media invites currently doing the rounds reportedly do not hint at any announcement about the much-awaited Xiaomi 13 Ultra smartphone.According to a report by GSMarena, Xiaomi has begun sending out…