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Some popular browser extensions are collecting and selling your data, according to a a new investigation. The extensions in question are Hover Zoom, SpeakIt!, SuperZoom, SaveFrom.net Helper, FairShare Unlock and PanelMeasurement.

AT&T was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday accusing it of selling customers’ real-time location data to third parties like credit agencies and bail guarantors, along with bounty hunters and stalkers, without having customer consent. 

Scammers are posing as employees of Expedia to take money from unknowing consumers, according to a press release. Expedia Group and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) have teamed up to warn consumers of these scams that have been reported within the last several days.

Some Sprint users had their information hacked from the Samsung.com “add a line” website, according to a letter Spring sent to impacted customers. Sprint said that they were informed of the unauthorized access on June 22.

Amazon’s rival retailers are benefitting from Amazon Prime Day deals with an increase in online revenues and offering their own online discounts. Retailers including Walmart, Target, Macy’s, and Best Buy cashed in on the Prime Day frenzy with their own, separate deals and discounts.

President Donald Trump cannot block critics from viewing his Twitter feed, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The court said that Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter who were critical of him and his policies and that his account is considered a “public forum.”

Twitter will expand its rules to ban hateful conduct made against religious groups, the social network announced Tuesday. The new rules will require the company to remove any tweet which “dehumanizes whole religious groups,” but it's not clear whether it will solve Twitter's hate speech problem. 

Apple disabled the Walkie Talkie app for the Apple Watch after reports that a vulnerability could allow users to tap into another person’s iPhone and eavesdrop on conversations without their consent. It's the latest in a string of privacy issues hitting Apple devices.

Fight for the Future, a digital rights group, announced a campaign on Tuesday calling for a complete ban on government use of facial recognition surveillance software. The campaign, BanFacialRecognition.com, asks visitors to the site to contact their lawmakers about the issue.

After nearly 12 hours, Facebook has finally fixed the bugs and outages affecting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp users on Wednesday. If you've had trouble accessing pictures or uploading video on the platforms, the outage is the reason why. All three platforms should now be working properly.

Border police in Xinjiang, China have begun to install surveillance apps on the phones of travelers that extract emails, texts, contact information, and more. The Chinese-designed app searches phones for content that the country's authorities would view as problematic, such as Islamic extremism.

Facebook said Tuesday that it plans to to fight sensational health claims, supposed miracle cures, and fake health news by de-prioritizing content around those topics in the News Feed. The company said that any exaggerated or misleading health claims about vaccines would be part of the crackdown.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) penned a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Sunday commending the antitrust probes from the FTC and the Department of Justice.

Amazon will celebrate this year's 48-hour long Prime Day sale with a concert headlined by pop music icon Taylor Swift. The Amazon Prime Day Concert will stream live on Amazon Prime Video on July 10 beginning at 6 p.m. PT, and will also feature Dua Lipa, SZA and Becky G.

Twitter announced Thursday that it will add a notice over politicians' tweets if the social network deems the tweet to violate its rules. While not mentioning President Donald Trump, the move is all but certainly aimed at him and other politicians who use the social network to attack rivals.

Your Google Maps app will now be able to predict how crowded your bus or train will be thanks to a recent update, Google announced Thursday. The crowdedness prediction is based off of ratings by other users and will now appear when you look up transit directions in Google Maps

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. government "should be suing Google and Facebook and all that." The president also announced that he will be hosting a social media summit in July with leaders of the big tech companies he called out. 

San Francisco has become the first city in the U.S. to ban the sales of e-cigarettes in stores and online. The ban is the first of its kind in the U.S. and does not include regular cigarettes and other tobacco products, or recreational marijuana. If it stands, the ban won't go into effect for several months.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and law enforcement officials announced a new crackdown against illegal robocalls on Tuesday, targeting companies responsible for over a billion of the annoying calls. 

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri told CBS News' Gail King in a recent interview that Instagram does not listen to its users, even though you may see ads related to products you were talking about with a friend, but never actually searched for.

Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia have recently found the same sort of bone growth at the base of young adults' necks, which looks like a horn jutting out from the skull. Smartphones could be the culprit.

A video instructing customers how to get through the 11-step process to factory reset a General Electric smart bulb shows just how ridiculous fixing some connected appliances can be. 

Hulu and Xbox Live service came back online after going down for several hours on Wednesday afternoon. As of 4:30 p.m. PT, Hulu service appeared to be restored for most users. Xbox Live service began to come back around 4:45 p.m. PT, according to Xbox support.

There’s a new Tesla model in town (sort of). Sick of waiting for Tesla to release an electric pickup truck, YouTuber Simone Giertz decided to make her own — post a fake commercial for it on YouTube. She calls it the "Truckla."

The moderators in charge of policing inappropriate content on Facebook have begun to speak out over work conditions that have caused them to fear for their lives and left them unable to enforce Facebook's rules.

YouTube is considering major changes to its recommendation algorithm amid an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into how it handles videos aimed at children. The changes could include moving children's content to its own app or removing the auto-play feature

Hulu announced today that more original programming is slated to appear on the streaming service.