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Today’s links:

• Popular dating apps like Grindr, OkCupid, Tinder, and the period-tracking apps Clue and MyDays are all sharing personal information directly with data brokerswww.consumerreports.org #

• Trump slams Apple for refusing to unlock iPhones of suspected criminals - This feels off because his reason is that the government helps Apple navigate the trade war, so they should help the government with policing, but it’s the government that is partly responsible for creating the trade war in the first placewww.cnbc.com #

• Verizon Media launches OneSearch, a privacy-focused search engine - It runs ads next to search results but only based on per query info - “no cookie tracking, no ad personalization, no profiling, no data-storing, and no data-sharing with advertisers”venturebeat.com #

• Diary Email - Write private diary using good old email! - I like the simplicity of this product, though I’d be a bit worried about the security of the data, how it is transmitted and storeddiaryemail.com #

• Sequential announces new Pro 3 synthesiserwww.residentadvisor.net #

• Highlights from Git 2.25 - The sparse checkout and partial clones features looks like they could be quite useful when cloning large monoreposgithub.blog #