Facebook is probing whether the firm’s government contracts comply with its policies, which nix use of user data for government surveillance.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
The bot scraped Venmo’s public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the “buyers.”
Why your website is officially ‘not secure’ from today
Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” starting on Tuesday – an important milestone on the road to HTTPS everywhere.
Hackers hold 80,000 healthcare records to ransom
CarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records – the hackers say they took 80,000.
Basic email blunder exposed possible victims of child sexual abuse
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse sent out a mass emailing in which a staffer mistakenly used “To” instead of “Bcc”.
Privacy – can you have too much of a good thing? [PODCAST]
Catch up with Day 4 of our Security SOS Week – here’s the fourth episode of our week-long online security summit.
Venmo users: time to hide your drug deals and excessive pizza consumption
To its fans, Venmo is a hassle-free P2P app that lets anyone living in the US send money to friends, split a restaurant bill, pay for a ride on Uber, or buy a hotel room. To the security conscious, it’s a privacy nightmare.
Could semantic icons replace passwords and PINs?
SemanticLock replaces passwords, PINs and patterns with a sequence of graphical icons which work semantically.
Guy jailed for refusing to unlock phones
The phones are new, he said, and he can’t remember the passcodes.
Sextortion scam knows your password, but don’t fall for it
The scam emails claim to have compromising video of you, and back it up by showing you one of your passwords.