We combed through some 70,000 words of Apple’s various policies to figure out exactly what it’s collecting about you—and how to keep it under control.Speaking of online ads, new research this week from Human Security uncovered a massive ad-fraud scheme dubbed Vastflux.The operation used weaknesses in the advertising ecosystem to target some 1,700 apps and 11 million phones, resulting in around 12 billion requests for ads each day at Vastflux’s peak.We also dove into the lingering threat of online echo chambers, which continue to have an outsize impact on US politics, and explored the ongoing mess at T-Mobile, which this week revealed yet another major data breach that the company says impacted some 37 million customers.Hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the United States have access to a little-known database of 150 million money transfers sent between the US, Mexico, and 22 other regions, according to a report this week by The Wall Street Journal."