Google faces a major multi-state antitrust lawsuit over Google Play fees – News

Google faces a major multi-state antitrust lawsuit over Google Play fees – TechCrunch

A group of 37 attorneys general filed a second major multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google Wednesday, accusing the company of abusing its market power to stifle competitors and forcing consumers into in-app payments that grant the company a hefty cut. New York Attorney General Letitia James is co-leading the suit alongside the Tennessee, North Carolina … Read more

Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties – News

Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties – TechCrunch

Several widely used opioid treatment recovery apps are accessing and sharing sensitive user data with third parties, a new investigation has found. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to reduce transmission in the U.S, telehealth services and apps offering opioid addiction treatment have surged in popularity. This rise of app-based services comes … Read more

Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties – News

Opioid addiction treatment apps found sharing sensitive data with third parties – TechCrunch

Several widely used opioid treatment recovery apps are accessing and sharing sensitive user data with third parties, a new investigation has found. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to reduce transmission in the U.S, telehealth services and apps offering opioid addiction treatment have surged in popularity. This rise of app-based services comes … Read more

Months later, we’re still making sense of the Supreme Court’s API copyright ruling – News

Affirming the position of tech advocates, Supreme Court overturns Trump’s termination of DACA – TechCrunch

Kin Lane is chief evangelist at Postman, an API development platform with a user base of over 13 million software developers. APIs, or application programming interfaces, make the digital world go round. Working behind the scenes to define the parameters by which software applications communicate with each other, APIs underpin every kind of app — … Read more

Kill the standard privacy notice – News

Kill the standard privacy notice – TechCrunch

Leif-Nissen Lundbæk Contributor Leif-Nissen Lundbæk is the co-founder and CEO of Xayn. He specializes in privacy-preserving AI. Privacy is a word on everyone’s mind nowadays — even Big Tech is getting in on it. Most recently, Apple joined the user privacy movement with its App Tracking Transparency feature, a cornerstone of the iOS 14.5 software … Read more

Google update will allow digital COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results to be stored on Android devices – News

Google update will allow digital COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results to be stored on Android devices – TechCrunch

Google is making it possible to store digital versions of either COVID-19 test results or vaccination cards on users’ Android devices. The company on Wednesday announced it’s updating its Passes API, which will give developers at healthcare organizations, government agencies, and other organizations authorized by public health authorities the ability to create digital versions of … Read more