The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) accidentally spilled some of its opsec onto Twitter last week, uploading a screenshot that revealed browser bookmarks.
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91 “child friendly” Android apps accused of exploitation
New Mexico’s AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus Google’s and Twitter’s ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids’ data.
Facebook’s rating you on how trustworthy you are
You, me, everyone is being rated on a scale between zero and one on signals such as whether we waste Facebook’s time by falsely flagging posts as being false.
Social networks to be fined for hosting terrorist content
Draft EU legislation, due out next month, will likely incorporate a one-hour takedown window for extremist content flagged by law enforcement.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
The family of “Dread Pirate Roberts” got him an account and is typing in, word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump’s clemency.
15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam.
Social media rumors lead to PepsiCo lawsuit
…so take down those 3,412 Facebook links, 20,244 Facebook posts, 242 YouTube videos, 6 Instagram links, and 562 tweets … by court order.
Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.
Crimson Hexagon banned by Facebook over user data concern
Facebook is probing whether the firm’s government contracts comply with its policies, which nix use of user data for government surveillance.
Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency
Scammers have been exploiting Twitter for months now to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account.