The parent company of Tumblr and Wordpress, Automattic, is striking a deal to sell user data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The deal has been discovered by 404media, with the tech news site getting hold of internal documents that show the impending data sale with companies like Midjourney and...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk's X Corp, previously known as Twitter, regarding the disclosure of user data requests by federal law enforcement for national security purposes, as per Reuters reporting. This decision upholds a lower court's ruling that the FBI's restrictions on...
Samsung has now ran over to go patch the 17 bugs that they found, which has potential use to farm user data. What were these Samsung bugs? The issues were found by Sergey Toshin, founder of the software security system Oversecured, specializing in mobile devices. Lately, the company has been...
Recently, it was found that about 500 Chrome extensions on the Chrome Web Store have uploaded private browsing data to their own servers. These are potentially owned and controlled by people who want to attack you. Jamila Kaya and other researchers from Cisco-owned Duo Security identified 71 extensions on the...
The world’s major technology players now have nearly unbridled access to more consumer information than ever, and in some cases, they’ve abused that privilege in the most horrific ways possible. When the concept of the Information Superhighway first went mainstream, the public had no idea that the flow of data...
In the wake of Cambridge Analytica, data misappropriation, #deletefacebook, calls for regulation and pending testimony to U.S. Congress, Facebook announced a series of initiatives to restrict data access and also a renewed selfie awareness to focus efforts on protecting people on the platform. What’s more notable however is that Mark...
The U.S. leads the world—by far—in requests for Facebook user data, the social network reported in its first Government Requests Report, which covers the first six months of 2013. In the U.S., Facebook fielded between 11,000 and 12,000 requests for data on 20,000 to 21,000 users—almost as many requests as it received...
What better way to celebrate the week hackers ran rampant than with another security breach? Zendesk, a company that offers IT support tools and customer service software, announced on Thursday that it had been hacked. In a blog post, CEO Mikkel Svane stated, "We've become aware that a hacker accessed out...
Facebook and Google deserve the criticism they have received over the years for fumbling user privacy. But the two Internet giants, along with Microsoft and Yahoo, also deserve kudos for defying police requests for users' online communications.Defying Federal LawThe companies have chosen civil disobedience over following federal privacy standards set...
The Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist who made headlines on Tuesday when he reported acquiring more than one million Facebook data entries for just $5, said Friday he is cooperating with Facebook as it conducts an internal investigation, but won't comply with the company's request to remove blog posts or...
The Google security team has enabled forward secrecy in its HTTPS services by default, so that captured messages can't be decrypted retroactively. Even though Gmail went to a secure HTTPS connection by default last year, encrypted files could still be captured in their unreadable form and broken years later, when...
Google has updated its Government Requests tool with data from the first half of this year. For the first time, the report discloses the number of users or accounts specified, not just the number of requests. Google also made the raw data behind government requests available to the public.Google launched...
Mobile handset maker HTC has found itself in some hot water concerning security leaks in some of its popular Android smartphones. HTC's Android skin "Sense" downloads logging tools onto users phones that can be used to track user accounts such as email, GPS and location data, phone numbers and SMS...
Now that LinkedIn has gone public and is beholden to the quarterly demands of shareholders, it is time to ramp on potential revenue streams. As such, the professional social network announced today that it will roll out personalized ads based on information from users' network. LinkedIn changed its privacy policy...
Apple, along with several prominent iOS app developers, has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accused of allowing iPad and iPhone apps to transmit users' personal information to advertising networks without their consent.The suit was filed on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California and centers on...
Facebook today unveiled an incredibly simple new service that will allow any website owner to hand over user registration for their site to Facebook, undoubtedly something countless independent sites have considered since seeing the disaster that resulted from the hacking of Gawker's user account info earlier this month.The new tool,...
Facebook says that people who actively share updates and messages on Facebook score higher on happiness tests than people who passively consume updates on the site. The company shared findings today of a user survey cross referenced with historical data about respondents' use of the site. "The results were clear,"...
Imagine visiting a website and finding that it already knows who you are, where you live, how old you are and who your Facebook friends are, without your ever having given it permission to access that information. If you're logged in to Facebook and visit some as yet unnamed "pre-approved"...
MySpace has taken a bold step and allowed a large quantity of bulk user data to be put up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and zipcodes. Friend lists are not included. Remember, Facebook...
Would you give a complete stranger your email address and date of birth? How about personal information about your friends?If results of a new study on Facebook user behavior is any indication, around half of us would answer "yes" to those questions, depending on how old we are. The study...
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