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Does giving your data to an app-based in China create a national security risk? Two U.S. senators are calling for an investigation into TikTok over data sharing, freedom of speech, and foreign interference. The request comes from Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton.

Waze users generate massive amounts of data on traffic conditions, and Waze is trying to put that data to good use. The app is offering data and analysis tools to cities via Google Cloud to help reduce traffic congestion. It's an expansion of a program Waze launched in 2014.

Even race teams need good cybersecurity software. Acronis works with three teams in the all-electric Formula E series to protect and analyze data from race cars. It even devised a way to detect faulty sensors on cars. Acronis also has a presence in Formula One, and in the business world.

Your smart home devices may only work inside your home, but they might be sending data your data all over the world. A tool developed by researchers at Princeton University can help you track the data being sent from your smart home devices to see where it is being sent and who is using it.

Using deep learning A.I., census data, and high-res satellite images, Facebook has created the most accurate population density maps ever. Initially covering the majority of the African continent, the company claims it will eventually map nearly the Earth's entire population.

Volvo believes new tech is the best way to improve car safety. The Swedish automaker will let owners set speed limits when loaning out their cars, install cameras to monitor drivers, and use data to design better safety features. Volvo previously said it would limit all cars to 112 mph.

From Europe to the United States, a growing number of new privacy laws promise to change the behavior of data-grubbing giants -- and the internet as a whole. Welcome to the revolution. Here's what you need to know about GDPR, CCPA, and their high-profile tech supporters.

Oregon senator Ron Wyden has drafted a data privacy bill for the U.S. which proposes sweeping changes to data laws to make data use more transparent and accessible to customers. The bill aims to protect Americans' privacy by giving customers more control over the sharing or selling of their data.

NASA's Kepler telescope has been decommissioned after nine years of hunting for planets outside of our solar system. The mission was only expected to last 3.5 years but ended up successfully transmitting data for much longer. Now all of that data is made publicly available for scientists to learn from.

Researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have proposed a plan to use ultra-hot and ultra-short laser beams to punch through cloud layers and transmit information from satellites to Earth. The technique could be used to send thousands of times more information more securely.

If you want to use less data with Twitter, a new feature rolled out for the app on October 3 has your back. Called Data Saver, it prevents videos from auto-playing and loads lower-resolution images. Should you want to view a higher-resolution image in Data Saver mode, you can do so in a couple of taps.

Mobile retailer Dixons Carphone has admitted a massive data breach which has exposed payment details of 5.9 million people, and the accounts of 10 million. The hack included both U.K. and international card information, but following an investigation, Dixons says no fraudulent activity has been recorded.

Apple has quietly updated its developer guidelines to ban developers from selling data collected from an iPhone users contacts app -- a practice similar to what landed Facebook in hot water with Cambridge Analytica. Of course, there isn't much Apple can do about the data already sold.

A New York Times journalist took a look at just how much Facebook knew about him, and was horrified by the answer. How much do other popular tech companies know about their users? Jefferson Graham of USA Today looked into how much data Apple collected from him. You can do the same with new Apple tools.

As the fallout of data firm Cambridge Analytica continues, a U.K. data privacy watchdog group has ordered that the company cede all of the personal information it collected from an American professor back to him, noting that even non-British citizens can seek and obtain data held by a British firm.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and that's especially true for Cambridge Analytica, which had collected information from more than 87 million Facebook users. Now, a former employee reveals that the company has been working on its own cryptocurrency designed to sell your own personal data back to you.

If you think that your minimal presence on Facebook may have exempted you from the social network's now well-publicized data collection tactics, you'll need to think again. The lead consumer technology reporter for the New York Times, Brian Chen, downloaded his data. The results were terrifying.

Data collected from the Apple Watch has been used as evidence in an Australian murder trial, where it provides a chillingly timeline of the murder victim's last moments, and may end up being instrumental in the killer's conviction.

After several days of silence, Mark Zuckerberg finally addressed the Cambridge Analytica controversy, pledging that Facebook will do better in the future.

Google's Project Fi has long charged $10 per 1GB of data, but that's now changing -- Project Fi will now cap your data bill at $60.

We all get 'free' services in exchange for our data. Could that same trade be applied to other things, too? Welcome to the zero-dollar future.

Microsoft's new Surface Pro with LTE Advanced should be able to get online no matter where you are in the world.