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Watch out for LinkedIn fakes who want to get connected

March 30, 2022 0 Comments AI, deepfake, fake, LinkedIn, Marketing, Privacy, profile

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:38:37 +0000

We take a look at a collection of no fewer than 1,000 profiles on LinkedIn using AI generated deepfake images for profile pictures.

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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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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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Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.

February 4, 2020 0 Comments ads, advertising, adverts, Google, Google Assistant, loretta, Marketing, Privacy, super bowl, Tracking

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:44:29 +0000

Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/a63Ljbmk14I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

November 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Android, data loss, data slurping, facebook, iOS, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook says location data in iOS 13, Android 10 may be confusing

September 11, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android 10, facebook, iOS, iOS 13, location data, location tracking, Marketing, Mobile, Privacy, Tracking

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:16:00 +0000

The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users’ most restrictive settings are.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6rvcy97aMoE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Nextdoor neighborhood app sends letters on its users’ behalf

August 27, 2019 0 Comments invitations, Marketing, neighborhood, neighborhood apps, nextdoor, nextdoor app, Privacy, Scam, scams, targeted marketing, user awareness, user privacy

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:35:31 +0000

The Nextdoor neighborhood app sends out snail mail letters to neighbors on behalf of its users. Is this a scam—or an ill-conceived marketing plan?

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Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

August 9, 2019 0 Comments Big Data, data scraping, facebook, Hyp3r, Instagram, location data, Marketing, Privacy, Tracking, user data, user profiles

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:07:06 +0000

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users’ locations and stories.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tYg0EOUDhS8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>