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The SwiftKey keyboard app is busy leaking email addresses and phone numbers to strangers

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Who doesn't love a good AI-driven keyboard, eh? Well, people who have discovered that the keyboard is sending their email address and phone number to strangers, for starters. And that seem to be precisely what's happening with SwiftKey. The Microsoft-owned company has disabled the syncing of data between devices after users complained not only about the appearance of unknown email addresses and phone numbers in suggestions, but also suggestions in unknown foreign languages. The problem became apparent when users who saw the random email address suggestions contacted the owner of the address. The problem has been going on for a… [Continue Reading]

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