Photo sharing website Flickr is trying to combat copyright infringement with a service that spots copies of its users’ images online.
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Slack gets hacked – rolls out two-factor authentication after user database breach
Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways – by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn’t post them online
Two “privacy advocates” running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it’s perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it’s your fault)
Professor Owen Mundy has mapped a million cats’ locations on to a world map in a purrfect illustration of the extent of the data that’s publicly available from photo-sharing sites. He isn’t even a cat person. He could just have easily called the project “I know where your kid sleeps”.