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AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow
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privacy Telegram allows you to "unsend" messages coming from either party, and has no time limit Carla Sinclair
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