Collaborate Disseminate
In another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients. Continue reading Facebook sends weekly app emails to wrong people
In what appears to be the latest salvo in a new, wired form of protest, developer Sam Lavigne posted code that scrapes LinkedIn to find Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee accounts. His code, which basically a Python-based tool that scans LinkedIn for keywords, is gone from Github and Gitlab and Medium took down his original […] Continue reading Security, privacy experts weigh in on the ICE doxxing
Whether what Red Shell does is an invasion of privacy or a harmless tool seems to depend on whether you’re a developer or a gamer. Continue reading Holy Potatoes! Popular games remove “spyware” after gamers revolt
Friending somebody means assuming the risk that they’re an undercover cop or informant. Continue reading Busted by a Facebook ‘friend’ who’s an undercover cop? It’s legal!
A bug in Facebook has changed the privacy setting of some posts to public, causing the social media giant to notify 14 million users that could have been affected. While the bug is not tagged as major, it could have prompted some people to accidentally… Continue reading 14 Million Facebook Users Notified of Bug Turning Status Posts Public
Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding content such as ‘like’ buttons. Continue reading Apple says no to Facebook’s tracking
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible. Continue reading Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
“Every piece of content that you share on Facebook you own. You have complete control over who sees it and how you share it,” said Mark Zuckerberg in front of Congress a couple of months ago. But his company may not be taking privacy protec… Continue reading Facebook exposed users’ personal data in data-sharing partnership
They accused execs of human rights violations, compared Zuckerberg to Vladimir Putin, and challenged his “corporate dictatorship.” Continue reading Facebook faces furious shareholders at annual meeting
The plan: figure out how it affects people; ID users behind fake accounts, fake news & porn posts; and maybe cook up its own social network. Continue reading Facebook to be blocked in Papua New Guinea for one month