Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:51:21 +0000

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9Wtt8BCE-R8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Teen entered ‘dark rabbit hole of suicidal content’ online

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:49:07 +0000

Molly Russell’s grieving father has backed a psychiatrists’ report, saying that tech companies must be forced to hand over anonymized data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Yj7ryqZZEUA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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

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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Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:41:38 +0000

They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SluZeVlpPlA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

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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