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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

February 21, 2022 0 Comments cubi, dtpa, face recognition, facebook, facial recognition, jerome presenti, ken paxton, meta, Privacy, state of texas, texas capture or use of biometric identifier act, texas deceptive trade practices consumer protection act, yann lecun

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:12:18 +0000

The suit alleges that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texans, including non-Facebook users.

Categories: Privacy

Tags: CUBI DTPA face recognition facebook facial recognition Jerome Presenti Ken Paxton meta state of Texas Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act Yann LeCun

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US senators introduce the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

February 19, 2022 0 Comments age appropriate design code, Awareness, california bill, children's code, facebook, frances haugen, kids online safety act, kosa, marsha blackburn, national telecommunications and information administration, online child safety, richard blumenthal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 20:19:41 +0000

The Kids Online Safety Act is aims to protect kids and teens when using social media.

Categories: Awareness

Tags: Age Appropriate Design Code California bill Children's Code facebook Frances Haugen Kids Online Safety Act KOSA Marsha Blackburn National Telecommunications and Information Administration online child safety Richard Blumenthal

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Meta blows safety bubble around users after reports of sexual harassment

February 8, 2022 0 Comments facebook, Malwarebytes news, meta, vr

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:41:07 +0000

Meta has enabled a security boundary as a default in its virtual realm after reports of sexual harassment.

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Tags: facebook meta vr

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Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

March 17, 2020 0 Comments age verification, chat apps, child abuse, child abuse imagery, child porn, child safety, children online, Cryptography, encryption, facebook, facetime, iicsa, imessage, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, Messenger, online grooming, online safety, photodna, predators, Privacy, snapchat, whatsapp, yubo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:57:40 +0000

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ELFeXrr3UeQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

March 3, 2020 0 Comments adtech, advertising, branch, braze, data loss, Data Sharing, facebook, goodrx, Google, hipaa, Marketing, medical information, Mobile, mobile marketing, personal data deletion, prescription drugs, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, surveillance, targeted advertising, targeted marketing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:47:27 +0000

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Mjy_qyNwWEk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Let’s Encrypt issues one billionth free certificate

March 2, 2020 0 Comments acme, automated certificate management environment, Cisco, Cryptography, digital certificates, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, facebook, Google, http, https, ietf, internet engineering task force, internet security research group, internet society, isrg, lets encrypt, Mozilla, ovh

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:06:25 +0000

Thanks to this flood of free certificates, the web is a lot more encrypted than it was a few years ago.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/m_p5aVh50cI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

March 2, 2020 0 Comments advertising, Android, data analytics, data loss, data slurping, facebook, grabby apps, iOS, Law & order, lawsuit, malicious sdks, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, software development kit, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook bans coronavirus ‘miracle cure’ ads

February 27, 2020 0 Comments clickbait, coronavirus, covid-19, facebook, facebook ranking, fake news, health, Instagram, miracle cure, phishing, ranking, Social networks, Spam

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:50:38 +0000

Facebook, like other platforms, has seen fake news, mass-buying of face masks, and misinformation about bleach being a cure for COVID-19.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9dojXZGW3Is” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it

February 25, 2020 0 Comments chat, data loss, facebook, Google, group chat, invite code, online privacy, Privacy, private chat groups, search engine, security threats, Social networks, whatsapp, whatsapp groups

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:22 +0000

Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/De9SWjTWYs0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco

February 19, 2020 0 Comments content moderation, european commission, extremist content, facebook, fake news, harms regulation, Law & order, Mark Zuckerberg, political advertising, Privacy, regulations, regulators, rules for the internet, Social networks, uk

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:37:17 +0000

Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission’s release of its manifesto on regulating AI.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vD36QJcf5Ls” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>