Most of the US and China’s requests had to do with investigations into fraud, suspected account access and phishing.
Tag Archives: user data
Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories
A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users’ locations and stories.
Twitter may have shared your data with its ad partners without your permission
Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.
You can probably be identified from your anonymized data
The idea of de-identifying data has been around for a while. However, a study published this week asserts that it’s even easier to re-identify information than we first thought.
US House and Senate debate new data privacy law
A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users’ data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*
Should we profit from the sale of our personal data?
Don’t spend that 30 cents all in one place!
Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used
They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it’s making big bucks off users’ data. They ordered the company to apologize.
Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga
A £500k is the best the Information Commissioner’s Office could do under the old Data Protection Act.
Apple privacy portal lets you see everything it knows about you
The Apple website’s privacy and data area lets you download and correct your data.
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.