Collaborate Disseminate
Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts. Continue reading Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges
“Oh no! However shall I give away Bitcoin to all my followers?” sobbed a bunch of crooks. Continue reading Twitter’s new policy bans financial scams
100K or so creators in the YouTube car community were targeted by a phishing campaign that captured 2FA codes. Continue reading YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished
400 developers have been naughty with user data, noncompliant with policy, and/or have ignored Facebook’s audit, it says. Continue reading Facebook has booted tens of thousands of data-grabbing apps
France finance minister: Libra won’t be allowed onto European soil. Continue reading Facebook Libra rejected by France as “dangerous”
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA. Continue reading LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
If you’re worried about the evil potential of deepfake video, you’re not alone; so is Facebook. Continue reading Facebook launches $10m deepfake detection project
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves. Continue reading Facebook expands use of face recognition
Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA. Continue reading Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse. Continue reading EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings