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How to delete your 23andMe data

Engadget

Go to the "Settings" tab of your profile. The details are in the company's privacy policy. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has recommended that past customers of the genetic testing business delete their information as a precautionary measure. Here are the steps to deleting your records with 23andMe.

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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Futurism

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. Users can easily opt out of this use of their data by adjusting their profile settings." Following the privacy policy update, some Pinterest users reflected on the changes in the r/Pinterest subreddit.

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Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts

Mashable Tech

The program requires schools to have an Instagram account and provides them with a profile banner to indicate that they're an official platform partner. Per Meta's policy, official school accounts should be run by school officials, not by a parent-teacher organization volunteers.

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The Twitter policy that could temporarily censor every single one of your tweets

The Verge

On Tuesday, a noted Palestinian-American journalist reporting live from protests near Jerusalem was suddenly and mysteriously silenced on Twitter — with every single tweet replaced by the message “@MariamBarghouti’s account is temporarily unavailable because it violates the Twitter Media Policy.” The company declined to say more.

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Bumble adds an ID verification feature to win over cautious daters

Fast Company Tech

ID verification requests a government-issued ID to authenticate the user’s age and name and then adds a badge indicating they are who they say they are on their profile. Users can then filter profiles by both photo verification and ID verification. ID verification is now available in 11 markets, including the U.S.,

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WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy amid mass confusion about Facebook data sharing

The Verge

fautomatWhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated to go into effect on February 8th following widespread confusion over whether the new policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook. WhatsApp tells The Verge the policy won’t be changing when it does come out.

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Threads for Nonprofits: 5 Tips for the Early Adoption Phase

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to Meta’s Supplemental Privacy Policy as pointed out by TechCrunch : “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” 3) Upload your profile pic, add a bio and website, and post a first thread immediately.

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