The app’s rollout in the EU has been delayed until Facebook can show privacy regulators its data protection workings.
Tag Archives: Law & order
FBI: Cybercrime tore a $3.5b hole in victims’ pockets last year
The FBI’s Internet Crime Report shows that business email comprise is the biggest money-maker for cybercriminals.
US charges four Chinese military members with Equifax hack
The indictment suggests the hack was part of a series of major data thefts organized by Chinese military and intelligence agencies.
Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app
A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.
Freedom Hosting owner pleads guilty to distributing child abuse images
Eric Eoin Marques has pleaded guilty to running what was once believed to be the largest child abuse hosting provider on the dark web.
Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’
Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud
Organizations were attacked for employees’ data, including names, addresses and birthdates used to set up hundreds of bank accounts.
FTC warns VoIP providers that help robocallers: we can and will sue
It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again.
Fraudsters posed as art dealer, bilked museum for millions
Scammers got away with a $3.1m BEC heist, art dealer and museum blame each other, and ownership of a valuable landscape is up in the air.