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7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP – to avoid exposing your personal data

7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP – to avoid exposing your personal data

Published by skeptic

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Smartphone permissions can quietly invade your privacy. Reviewing app permissions can help prevent data exposure. Check these permissions first, then audit them regularly. Your smartphone, whether you favor Android, iOS, or a niche mobile operating system, can leave trails that those who know how to follow can track. Every app I use requires some level of permission. When you want to order a takeaway, you might need to allow GPS to pinpoint your location; a utility app for speeding up mobile performance may need access to files and folders; or a social media platform may need permission to send push notifications. Also: This silent Android feature scans your photos for ‘sensitive content’ – how to uninstall it While convenient, unless smartphone permissions are properly managed, you might be granting apps far more control than they need — and this opens the door to your private data being exposed. You can decide exactly what your smartphone reveals about you, and when. By …

Hayden Panettiere Recalls Oscar Winner Exposing Himself To Her When She Was 19

Hayden Panettiere Recalls Oscar Winner Exposing Himself To Her When She Was 19

Published by Sam Flores

Hayden Panettiere, the star of Nashville, Heroes and the Scream movie franchise, has claimed that a “well-respected” Oscar-winning actor once exposed himself to her at a party. In an excerpt of her new memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning published by People magazine, Hayden wrote about how when she was 19, she went to an event with a friend. Making small talk with a group of men made her uncomfortable, she wrote, so she decided to call it a night. That’s when an “Oscar-winning actor and director” came up to her as she was putting on her coat and pointed down to what he claimed was gum on his pants. “I looked down and recoiled,” Hayden recalled. “This well-respected, award-winning actor’s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.” Hayden said the stunt “hadn’t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I’d never seen a grown man do something like that”. “I was shocked,” she noted. Hayden Panettiere in 2008, around the time of the incident described in her new …

The War With Iran Is Exposing Big Problems for the Military

The War With Iran Is Exposing Big Problems for the Military

Published by José Betancourt

In 1986, the British historian Correlli Barnett published The Audit of War, a brutal critique of Britain’s industrial performance in World War II. One can learn from his controversial effort: The United States is going through its own audit of war right now as we close in on a month of conflict in the Persian Gulf. No other country could have projected force from its homeland on the scale that America so far has—and not just in a couple of large raids, but in a sustained campaign conducted over a vast expanse of land and sea. Though the intelligence story of this war is, as ever, in the shadows, there is no question that American intelligence-gathering and analysis, especially but not exclusively from technical sources such as satellite imagery and signal intercepts, have been extraordinary. At the high end, the performance of advanced American-military technology such as the F-35 fighter bombers flown by the United States and its ally Israel has been stunning. Not a single F-35 has been lost. These airplanes, which are flying …

How Iran is exposing Vance and Rubio’s 2028 rivalry

How Iran is exposing Vance and Rubio’s 2028 rivalry

Published by Sam Flores

Presidents historically have at least paid lip service to the idea that they are supposed to consult Congress before launching a military action. While it’s usually obvious they will proceed anyway, they have nonetheless made the effort, if only to obtain the political cover they might need should things not go as planned. In the case of Donald Trump’s current misadventure in Iran, it’s becoming clear there was no plan — and since the president feels he is owed support for anything he does, he didn’t even bother with the niceties.  Since Vietnam at least, this dynamic has tended to put Democrats in a bind more often than Republicans. The reason for that is simple: The GOP has traditionally been unified in its zeal to go to war, while Democrats have been more divided. For a couple of decades, this caused Democratic presidential aspirants to twist themselves into pretzels trying to find a sweet spot between the party’s anti-war base and its more hawkish minority.  Now, as Trump’s war with Iran is intensifying and expanding, Republicans …

Commentary: In support of snitches exposing cheaters in high school sports

Commentary: In support of snitches exposing cheaters in high school sports

Published by Sam Flores

In case you weren’t aware, the City Section commissioner, Vicky Lagos, has been receiving lots of emails and phone calls exposing teams breaking CIF rules during the soccer playoffs, resulting in five teams, and possibly a sixth, having to forfeit games. Ye, some people hung on to information for weeks before reporting athletes playing in outside leagues in violation of CIF Bylaw 600, which isn’t good. If you know something, say something immediately, because entire teams have been affected by whistleblowers withholding the information until the playoffs. This delay tactic until right before the playoffs start or after they do has been going on for years. People wait until they see if their favorite team is directly affected with a loss in the playoffs, then they spill the beans. It’s wrong on so many levels. But the only way to expose corruption and cheating is for people to speak up, and it’s surely needed these days in the world of high school sports, where rumors of school boosters paying for tuition, arranging for housing and …

The State of the Union keeps exposing Democrats’ biggest problem

The State of the Union keeps exposing Democrats’ biggest problem

Published by Sam Flores

The State of the Union will never favor the minority party. By tradition and design, the annual address to a joint session of Congress has morphed into a lengthy free advertisement for the incumbent president. Gone are the days when presidents would give a measure of tough talk, like Gerald Ford did in 1975 when, in the wake of Watergate, as costs of living and mistrust in government were soaring, he confessed that “the state of our union is not good.” This was Donald Trump’s sixth State of the Union, and after all those spins on his MAGA tilt-a-whirl, it was clear that Democrats still have not figured out how to effectively rebut the president at his annual marquee address.  In 2025, Texas Rep. Al Green shook his cane at Trump and yelled in protest of the administration’s looming cuts to Medicaid; he was escorted from the House of Representatives by the Sergeant at Arms. Some Democrats walked out midway through the speech in protest. Others raised small placards distributed by the Congressional Progressive Progress …

Epstein files: Suspense focused on exposing elite and powerful over seeking justice for victims

Epstein files: Suspense focused on exposing elite and powerful over seeking justice for victims

Published by Sam Flores

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Sam Martin, Political Communication Scholar at Boise University. As a scholar of conservative movements, she is deeply concerned with how power obscures harm. In the Epstein case, what unsettles her most, in addition to the horrific abuse itself, is the way media and political systems pivot our attention away from the victims and toward the elites, namely powerful men, who may be embarrassed, implicated or exposed. The scandal becomes not about what happened to these girls, but about which elite might get named. Keywords for this article Source link