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A security researcher has found that LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin is vulnerable to leaking member data, including name, email address, location, phone number and where you work if the site using the feature is vulnerable to cr...
by Surur
3 weeks
Facebook has been embroiled in a scandal where massive data analytics companies have been taking advantage of their relatively open developer APIs to collect information on millions of users and use the data for rather nefarious p...
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3 weeks
Global network service provider Cloudflare has announced a new privacy-focused DNS service to take on Google’s 8.8.8.8 alternate DNS provider. Cloudflare’s main claim to fame is their focus on privacy – they prom...
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Facebook will be shutting down Partner Categories as it aims to tighten up privacy protections. The firm told advertisers yesterday in a post: We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories. This...
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Facebook is making its privacy tools easier to find for users in response to an outcry over Facebook and privacy that spanned the past week and a half. The firm has redesigned its privacy settings on mobile to move all the settin...
by Surur
4 weeks
In the wake of the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act (SESTA), which hold online platforms responsible for users’ speech, illegally shared content, and anything that...
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Facebook has been uploading SMSs and phone logs of Android users, an Ars Technica investigation found this weekend. When a user’s download of his Facebook data yielded a pretty comprehensive look at his call logs and SMS, e...
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Microsoft has come under fire for shipping a keylogger with Windows 10, hoovering up user data from typing users and uploading it to Redmond servers. Naturally, Microsoft did not have an actual keylogger, it would use Windows diag...
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Facebook has come under fire recently for privacy after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica was a firm which accessed data of tens of millions of Facebook users, without their explicit consent, and used it to sel...
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2 months
We have long been following the saga of Microsoft’s ongoing 2013 data jurisdiction case, with Microsoft today in the US Supreme Court fighting a data request by the DoJ for information held in Ireland on their servers on a ...
by Surur
3 months
If OneDrive, DropBox and Google Drive’s privacy policies make you a bit nervous you would be happy to know that privacy advocate MEGA’s cloud storage and file sharing app is now available in the Microsoft Store, after ...