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Phone and tablet makers reportedly had deep access to your Facebook data too

sudshr47 June 4, 2018

Back in 2015, Facebook stopped third-party app developers from accessing your friends’ data.

As evidenced from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, that kind of shady behaviour has resulted in quite the privacy nightmare, but phone and tablet manufacturers apparently had access to that data too.

The New York Times reported the social media giant had data sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers, including Apple, Amazon, Blackberry and Samsung, with many of these agreements still continuing.

These partnerships allowed for Facebook features to be integrated into phones — a.k.a device-integrated APIs — allowing Blackberry users to call their Facebook friends, for instance. Read more…

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UK data regulator tells Cambridge Analytica to hand over user’s data, or else

sudshr47 May 8, 2018

The UK’s data regulator is not letting Cambridge Analytica get off scot-free.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has waded into the next chapter of the unrelenting Cambridge Analytica drama. This time, the ICO has served the firm’s aff…

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Facebook announces plans to build ‘Clear History’ tool to combat privacy concerns

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, has historically been a celebration of the company’s greatest achievements and most exciting researchNot this year.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed millions of Facebook …

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Twitter sold data to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher — but it’s not as bad as it sounds

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

Facebook isn’t the only social network you need to worry about when it comes to protecting your personal data.
Twitter confirmed on Saturday to The Telegraph that it sold data access to the academic who also obtained millions of Facebook users’ infor…

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The data scientist behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal fires back at Facebook

sudshr47 April 23, 2018

The scapegoat in Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal is firing back at the social media giant.
Aleksandr Kogan, the relatively unknown scientist who was paid by Cambridge Analytica for data he harvested from more than 87 million Facebook users, i…

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LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin could leak user data, secret fix failed

sudshr47 April 19, 2018

Facebook isn’t the only one in the hot seat over data privacy. A flaw in LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin that websites use to let you quickly complete forms could have allowed hackers to steal your full name, phone number, email address, location (ZIP code), company, and job title. Malicious sites have been able to invisibly render […]

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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Facebook data could be stored in Russia

sudshr47 April 8, 2018

Another day, another twist in the Cambridge Analytica saga. And like any political scandal of the past year, now Russia is involved.
Facebook already upped the number of its users whose data was unknowingly used for a political data firm from 50 mill…

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Activists show up at Facebook HQ to demand better privacy

sudshr47 April 6, 2018

It was a small but passionate group at the entrance to Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters midday Thursday. Armed with signs demanding, “Facebook transparency now” and Facebook-esque “dislike” signs, a handful of privacy activists spoke out about …

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Mark Zuckerberg: Nobody’s perfect!

sudshr47 April 4, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook from his Harvard dorm room (of course, with a little bit of help). Now, 14 years and several scandals later, the 33-year-old billionaire is unabashedly saying that he’s still the best person to run Facebook.

On a rare call with journalists Wednesday, Financial Times reporter Hannah Kuchler asked, “Has the board discussed if you should step down from chairman?”

Zuckerberg — a man who once gave out business cards that said, “I’m CEO, bitch” — replied with a cocky tone quite unlike his often robotic-cheery responses: “Not that I’m aware of.” Read more…

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As marketing data proliferates, consumers should have more control

sudshr47 March 30, 2018

At the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas this week, privacy was on many people’s minds. It was no wonder with social media data abuse dominating the headlines, GDPR just around the corner, and Adobe announcing the concept of a centralized customer experience record. With so many high profile breaches in recent years, putting your customer […]