Tom and Jerry on HBO Max: How to watch, release date, cast - CNET

Tom and Jerry on HBO Max: How to watch, release date, cast - CNET

Tom and Jerry on HBO Max: How to watch, release date, cast - CNET

Posted: 26 Feb 2021 09:04 AM PST

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Time for some old-fashioned mouse on cat violence.

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If you, like me, spent much of your formative years watching Tom and Jerry cartoons, you might be keen to hear that a brand-new, feature-length Tom and Jerry movie is now available on HBO Max. 

But this isn't necessarily the Tom and Jerry you remember. In the spirit of movies such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam, this new flick places Tom and Jerry in the real world. 

The movie features quite the live-action cast -- Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena and Ken Jeong all appear. Check out the trailer below for a look...

It might end up being worth a watch, especially because the movie is "free" for HBO Max subscribers. That's right: In the spirit of recent releases like Mulan and Wonder Woman 1984, Tom and Jerry is available from day one to stream in your home.

How to watch

Tom and Jerry is available to watch now on HBO Max.

Right now, HBO Max costs $15 a month. When Disney's live-action Mulan came to Disney Plus in September, subscribers had to pay an extra $30 for Mulan (until Dec. 4, when it became free for all subscribers). Tom and Jerry doesn't require any extra charges. Just tune in to HBO Max as you normally would, and you'll be able to watch.

Outside the US? Consider a VPN: See the best VPNs ranked by CNET editors

When will it be available?

Tom and Jerry went live on HBO Max on Friday, Feb. 26. Note, however, that it will only be available for about 31 days. 

Is there a free trial?

Currently HBO Max doesn't provide free trials. That stopped around the time it allowed users to stream Wonder Woman 1984 as part of its service.

But if you're not currently a member of HBO Max you might consider signing up? We have a lengthy explainer on the service, which has a fat library of other movies and programs you could check out, including Lovecraft Country, Rick and Morty, the Studio Ghibli movies and more.

These dating apps are tracking your location - ZDNet

Posted: 12 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST

British Virgin Islands-based VPN service ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab has released a new report revealing the prominence of location tracker SDKs in dating apps.

Your online privacy is becoming a big deal as apps and business websites track you without your permission and target you due to the information you provide online. But the prominence of questionable location trackers is proliferating among the dating apps you use.

Location data is commonly harvested from your smartphone. It can enrich user-profiles and provide insights into user behavior via intimate details about a user's movements. Data collected by location and proximity sensors could end up in the hands of law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and military organizations. This massive amount of data about the movements of populations can threaten the privacy of ordinary people around the globe with potential human rights issues.

ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab worked with Esther Onfroy of the Defensive Lab Agency and used the app scanner provided by Exodus Privacy to analyze 450 apps across messaging, gaming, social, and shopping apps used by everyday consumers.

It used a combination of automated tools and manual analysis, to determine whether there are "signatures," or identifying information, for a tracker in an app's code, gathering other interesting information such as network endpoints that the app may communicate with.

To do this, it downloaded and unpacked each app installer, disassembled machine language into human-readable source code, searched the source code for tracker signatures and other identifiers, and correlated its findings with web databases, public information, and app stores.

It found that all apps that it analyzed contained questionable trackers. These apps collectively have been downloaded at least 1.7 billion times by consumers globally.

It identified 64 dating apps that have been downloaded at least 52 million times globally. These location trackers are associated with several companies such as X-Mode (subject to a ban by Apple and Google), OneAudience, and Predicio, amongst others, which have repeatedly been called out for privacy violations.

X-mode appeared in 44% (199) of all 450 apps analyzed. Despite the ban, only 10% of these apps have been removed from Google Play.

These dating apps remain available for mass download at the end of January 2021 on the Google Play Store and specifically target a range of sexual orientations and dating preferences, as well as a large assortment of national, ethnic, and racial groups.

These include apps such as Jack'd - Gay Chat & Dating (five million downloads), FEM - Free Lesbian Dating App, Chat and Meet Singles (one million downloads), Encore - Single Parents and Divorced Dating and Chat (500,000 downloads), Black Dating - Meet Online Black Singles Nearby (100,000 downloads), and Asian Mingle - Free Asian Dating and Singles Chat (100,000 downloads).

They also cover more generic dating apps like Mingle2, which claims to have over 39 million members.

There is a growing threat to consumer privacy. When you download an app, you can not take advantage of privacy-protecting searches like Xayn, you are at the mercy of the app. Many apps will not work without location services, and some updates turn settings back on stealthily.

But do you live a life without the apps that bring you joy and keep your location secret, or do you accept that this data may, one day, be used against you in some way? The choice is yours.

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