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Parental-control apps could expose your kids’ private data — here are the bad apples

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Are child-monitoring apps taking advantage of parents’ concern for their kids? According to a new report from the Cybernews research team, some are. Android parental-control apps with over 85 million installations could be taking it way too far with how they track kids and collect data from them.

On top of that, the investigation discovered that four in 10 popular child-monitoring apps feature malicious links. What’s worse is that none of the apps received a high privacy grade. Parents should watch their own backs, too; they’re also being tracked and followed.

The child-monitoring apps that are tracking parents, too

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Alappuzha native identifies Apple’s security flaw, enters hall of fame | Kerala

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Alappuzha: A Computer Engineering student from Kerala has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of digital giant Apple Inc for finding a security flaw in its cloud service platform. 

K S Ananthakrishnan from Mankombu in Kerala’s Alappuzha district discovered a major security breach in the server of iCloud, the cloud-storage and cloud-computing service of Apple.  iCloud email users were vulnerable to this flaw. 

The security lapse was spotted in January and it was communicated to the Apple engineers. The Apple developers fixed the issue; however, Ananthakrishnan found that the solution did not apply to all accounts with the server. After Apple fixed the flaw, it was identified that it applies only to the newly created accounts. Ananthakrishnan again informed Apple of these new findings.

The Hall of Fame is published once every three months. Earlier, Ananthakrishnan had entered the Halls of Fame for Google, Facebook and Github by identifying their security lapses.

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YC’s letter to founders, Apple’s folding device and the DOJ’s new stance on hackers

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Hi all!

Welcome back to Week in Review, our newsletter where we wrap up many of the top stories to hit TechCrunch over the last seven days.

The big thing this week, based on what people were reading most, were the details of a memo sent from Y Combinator to its portfolio founders.

As the markets continue to slide,YC is telling its portfolio founders that it’s time to batten down the hatches — cut costs, extend runway and get to a “default alive” state. “For those of you who have started your company within the last 5 years,” YC writes, “question what you believe to be the normal fundraising environment.”

Manish has the full 10-point email right here.

other things

Besides more bad news about the markets, what else was going on?

Apple testing a foldable?: Is Apple tinkering with the idea of folding phones and/or tablets? Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is testing E-Ink displays for the secondary display on an as-of-yet-unseen “future foldable”. As Brian points out, though, “there’s a big gulf between testing and releasing” — in other words, don’t be too surprised if this one never sees the light of day.

NHTSA probes Tesla crash: Earlier this month, a Tesla Model S “hit a curb and slammed into construction equipment”, killing three. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now looking into the accident to determine if Tesla’s Autopilot system could’ve been involved.

DOJ says it will no longer prosecute good-faith hackers: After way, way, way too long, the U.S. Justice Department is re-evaluating how it looks at hacking cases, for the first time outright stating that “good-faith security research should not be charged” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Haje on Coke’s new bottle cap: “When [Coke] sends out a hand-wringing press release about how awesome they are for launching a bottle cap where the cap stays attached to the bottle ‘for environmental reasons,'” writes Haje, “I’m sorry, my blood just boils.”

PayPal Ventures alums launch a new fund: Within a few months of parting ways with PayPal Ventures, these three alums had raised a huge new fund of their own. The focus? Fintech, and backing “startups that address ‘the biggest hurdles’ in today’s…

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