Spyware Company Leaves Terabytes of Data Unprotected Spyfone, a software company that allows parents to spy on their kids, spouses to spy on each other and employers to spy on employees allowed the world to spy on everyone. The data left exposed on Amazon included photos, text messages, contacts, location information, Facebook messages and other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Glad I am not Mark Zuckerberg, Well, maybe. I think I would like to have his bank account 🙂 Facebook is making some efforts to rehabilitate it’s image within the fundamental constraint that it is selling your data for a living. While pretending that it is all for your benefit. As part of this rehab […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Irish High Court Deals Blow to Facebook In yet another case that could deal a blow to the way that Facebook and others transfer data between the EU and the US, the Irish High Court told Facebook that it would not stay it’s “referral” to the European Court of Justice. The case in question is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security. Convenience. Pick one! That is my forever mantra. Now we are finding out that when you login to your favorite site using “Login with Facebook” your data is exposed to third parties. Nice. According to research from “Freedom to Tinker” at Princeton, when a user logs in using Facebook’s API, Javascript on the site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook is used to riding high. Not so much lately. First they said that Cambridge Analytica inappropriately captured the data of 47 million users after 250,000 or so users completed a survey and they captured the information of all of those people’s friends without their permission. Now they are saying that their arithmetic wasn’t so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This time, the data that Facebook is mining is your call data and your text message data. But there is a difference. In this case, Facebook says that it asked permission when you installed Messenger or Facebook Lite. However, the default was to collect the data and it was not very clear to users that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]