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Do you know how much information your apps are collecting about you? Sometimes it’s hard to tell where your personal data goes, but usually we agreed to hand it all over.

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 380 new COVID-19 infections and nine deaths in the latest data as the number of patients hospitalized with the virus continues to fall.

The video platform also overtook Facebook as the most popular social media website, according to new data from Cloudflare, a web security and performance company.

Two classic holiday tunes are battling it out for the top spot in each state.

Netflix on Tuesday rolled out a new website that measures its most-watched films and series by the amount of hours users spend watching them.

Officials in some urban areas are raising concerns about a federal rule limiting how federal coronavirus relief money can be spent on high-speed internet

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany

President Donald Trump points to spiking crime and delivers stark statistics on murders and shootings as part of his “law and order” campaign emphasis that suggests cities are overrun with violence that only he can stop.

The coronavirus has sparked concerns about how private medical information is being used

The U.S. created the internet, but you’d never know it given the chaotic way it collects vital pandemic data

NBC 7 Investigates looked at data from the last few years in San Diego and determined resisting arrest is a crime African-Americans are being arrested for at a much larger rate

The City of San Diego’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee will create an ordinance that will provide a deeper look into the data collected by streetlight sensors.

On January 1st, California rolled out the strongest data privacy law in the United States: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

NBC 7 Alexis Rivas explains the framework of the law and how the biggest companies are adapting to comply with it

A Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users — nearly all U.S.-based — on the open internet. That data was likely harvested by criminals, said researcher Bob Diachenko, an independent security consultant in Kyiv.

A Boeing engineer filed an internal complaint alleging that company managers rejected a backup system that might have alerted pilots to problems linked to two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max jet, according to published reports. The Seattle Times and The New York Times reported Wednesday that an engineer who worked on the Max said managers were urged to consider...

Boeing did not tell Southwest Airlines, its largest 737 Max customer, that a standard safety feature designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated on the jets. The safety feature is an alert that lights up in the cockpit if a plane’s angle-of-attack sensors transmit faulty data about the pitch of the plane’s nose. This feature is known...

Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use. In doing so, Apple closed off Facebook’s efforts to sidestep Apple’s app store and its tighter rules on privacy. The tech blog TechCrunch reported late Tuesday that Facebook paid people about $20 a month to install and use...

Are you curious what information Facebook is collecting on you? If so, there’s a way to download all your archived data.

President Donald Trump is continuing his habit of painting immigrants as criminals, highlighting gang connections, calling family reunification a national security threat and bemoaning the death of a pro football player involved in a car accident with a man living in the country illegally. Speaking to law enforcement officials at the White House on Tuesday, Trump singled out the MS-13...