Regretful WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton has joined the ranks of the Silicon Valley mea-culpa-rati.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses
Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.
Spotify offers playlists tailored to your DNA
Spotify and Ancestry have teamed up to let you use your real DNA to tell your “musical” DNA.
Facebook scolds police for using fake accounts to snoop on citizens
Put down that “Bob Smith” fake account and back off, Facebook told the Memphis Police Department, waving its real-names policy in the air.
Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug
Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn’t found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer.
Users fret over Chrome auto-login change
Users were complaining this week after discovering they’d been logged in to Google’s Chrome browser automatically, after logging into a Google website.
Wendy’s faces class action over collecting staff fingerprints
Two former Wendy’s employees want to know what the company does with employee fingerprints collected by biometric clocks.
Bankrupt NCIX customer data resold on Craigslist
What happens to sensitive customer data when a large company that has collected it over many years suddenly goes bust?
Facebook faces sanctions if it drags its feet on data transparency
The EU justice commissioner said she’s out of patience. Also, she quit Facebook because it’s a “channel of dirt.”
App developers are STILL allowed to read your Gmails
Google is still allowing third-party developers access to access its users’ Gmail data, it said in a letter to Senators last week.