Collaborate Disseminate
Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients. Continue reading Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts? Continue reading Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
It’s not a “state actor”, so isn’t subject to 1st Amendment scrutiny and can censor PragerU’s videos on abortion, gun rights and terrorism. Continue reading Google has right to censor conservative nonprofit on YouTube
The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup. Continue reading Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all
Facebook, like other platforms, has seen fake news, mass-buying of face masks, and misinformation about bleach being a cure for COVID-19. Continue reading Facebook bans coronavirus ‘miracle cure’ ads
Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff. Continue reading Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff
This line of thinking could get absurd, Indiana’s supreme court declared. How do you “steal” something if you don’t know who owns it?
Continue reading Taking a GPS tracker off your car isn’t ‘theft,’ court rules
Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing. Continue reading Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it
Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws. Continue reading Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children. Continue reading KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims