Collaborate Disseminate
Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018. Continue reading Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap. Continue reading TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed
Facebook says the company used celeb bait links to infect victims with malware and hijacked their ad accounts to sell diet pills. Continue reading Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts
Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits! Continue reading $5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
Collecting children’s data without their guardians’ consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine. Continue reading US parents file class action against TikTok over children’s privacy
It’s about showing age-appropriate content, it said. Though staying safe from child-privacy lawsuits doesn’t hurt, either. Continue reading Instagram trying to protect kids by getting dates of birth from new users
Former Dutch city council member Mitchel van der K invaded hundreds of iCloud accounts “frequently and repeatedly”. Continue reading iCloud-hacking politician to be sentenced on Christmas eve
Yodel’s mobile parcel delivery app was leaking people’s delivery data to others using the app, a security researcher discovered. Continue reading Yodel parcel tracking app blabs about other people’s parcels
“Facebook did a great job,” said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower’s arrest was based on hearsay. Continue reading Facebook made to ‘correct’ user’s post as Singapore flexes fake-news muscle
It’s a grabby little app, data-wise, but how is it different from, say, Google or Facebook? Continue reading FBI: Russia-based FaceApp is a ‘potential counterintelligence threat’