He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.
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Experian credit-freeze PINs could be revealed by a simple trick
The credit bureaus’ struggles with PINs continue…
Google quietly bought Mastercard credit and debit card records
The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.
Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking
The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.
Man travels across world to attack online friend, shot by girl’s mum
She somehow allowed an online “friend” to get hold of her address – with a tragic outcome.
Facebook defends practice of giving deep data access to device makers
They’re not “outsiders,” Facebook says. They’re part of Facebook, helping to make Facebook play nicely with their devices.
Budget Android manufacturer Blu settles with FTC over privacy fiasco
These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours, with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.
Congress chews up Zuckerberg, day two: A far more thorough mastication
“What’s the difference between Facebook and J. Edgar Hoover?”
Congress grills Zuckerberg, day one: How does this online stuff work?
On Tuesday, senators began their questioning of the virgin-to-Congressional-grilling, Mark Zuckerberg.
Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data
Like Cambridge Analytica, Cubeyou also gobbled users’ data with personality quizzes, under the guise of “research.”