Collaborate Disseminate
A college student from Palo Alto, California is suing video-sharing service TikTok for allegedly using surveillance software designed to harvest personally identifiable information, including biometric data, and send it to China for reasons other than … Continue reading Lawsuit alleges TikTok sends user videos to Chinese servers for surveillance
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Continue reading Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Continue reading Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs
Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, “Swatting celebrities for a follow back.”
Continue reading Police arrest alleged Chuckling Squad member who hijacked @Jack Dorsey
It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow. Continue reading Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store
Prosecutors allege that Meiggs and Harrington took over their targets’ mobile phone and email accounts via SIM-swapping. Continue reading Two men busted for hijacking victims’ phones and email accounts
Tired of being a tracked, ad-bedeviled product sold by social media companies? The cost to immediately join a network with no tracking/ads: $12.99/month. Continue reading Wikipedia co-founder offers a Facebook/Twitter wannabe
Facebook was quick to reassure iPhone users this week that it wasn’t secretly spying on them via its app, after someone found the software keeping the phone’s rear camera active in the background. Continue reading Facebook fixes iPhone camera bug
Apple has yanked an app from its iTunes App Store that allowed Instagram users to follow their friends’ activities on the social network. Continue reading Apple pulls Instagram-watching app from store
Or your small/new channel, or to shut you down if you use an ad blocker, though a clause in its new ToS is leading people to fear the worst. Continue reading No, YouTube isn’t planning to jettison your unprofitable channel