Tech

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Source: AdGuard Web Performance Report 2025.

• Shein’s popularity has grown exponentially in Argentina recently, following sweeping deregulation efforts by the government.
• The influx of ultrafast fashion has put a damper on the local textile industry.
• Lawmakers across Latin America are pushing for “anti-Shein” bills, joining global efforts to rein in ultrafast fashion.

TikTok not only tracks its users while they are using the TikTok app itself, but it is increasingly integrated with many other websites and apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage on his smartphone. However, that’s not all: In addition to tracking users across the digital space, TikTok also refuses to provide an interested users with a copy of all of their personal data. Therefore, noyb has therefore filed two complaints against TikTok and its data-sharing partners AppsFlyer and Grindr.

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Lawsuits

• Sony;
• Samsung;
• LG;
• Hisense; and -TCL.

These companies have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition (“ACR”) technology. ACR in its simplest terms is an uninvited, invisible digital invader. This software can capture screenshots of a user’s television display every 500 milliseconds, monitor viewing activity in real time, and transmit that information back to the company without the user’s knowledge or consent. The companies then sell that consumer information to target ads across platforms for a profit. This technology puts users’ privacy and sensitive information, such as passwords, bank information, and other personal information at risk.

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We’ll cut to the chase: In collaboration with multiple parties, we have recovered over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including system data, exclusive games, and even prototypes that were never published. We’ve also digitized internal paperwork and correspondence that reveals how Sega Channel operated, how it was marketed, and what would’ve come next for the service.