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Tag Archives: Privacy
YouTube’s antics with kids’ data prompts call for FTC to force change
Sen. Markey and 2 consumer groups said the Google-owned service must comply with COPPA and should be held accountable for not doing so.
WeTransfer sends user file links to wrong people
Popular file transfer service WeTransfer faces embarrassment this week after admitting that it had mailed file links to the wrong users.
Cop awarded $585K after colleagues snooped on her via license database
Krekelberg alleged that 58 fellow officers broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without any reason.
Facebook posts reveal your hidden illnesses, say researchers
The language we use could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms.
Government is exposing identities of child abuse victims
DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.
“Deeply personal medical” records exposed online
The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.
Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)
Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo “drug” deals from the public-by-default company.
Privacy foul for soccer league app that eavesdropped on users
The LaLiga app used phones’ GPS and microphones to sniff out bars that were broadcasting soccer matches illegally.
Facebook got 187,000 users’ data with snoopy VPN app
According to a letter it sent to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, that’s 31,000 US users, with the rest in India.