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user personal date leak from Facebook and twitter by 3rd party apps
The apps violated Facebook platform policy by installing software in their apps by sending infor…
PTI
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A new Android trojan called ‘FlyTrap’ is hijacking social media to access user data
Once the engagement part is over, users are shown their Facebook login page and asked to enter…
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150% Increase In Govt’s Request For User Data
Richard Salgado, Google's legal director of law enforcement and information security, wrote in a bl…
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Twitter is ‘sorry’ that it shared your data and tracked you without permission for over a year
Even if you have gone to the trouble of telling Twitter not to share your data with advertisers, it…
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New VPN rules: ExpressVPN removes its servers from India, other companies may pull out too
VPN service providers have said the guidelines issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response …
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Get user data without getting your app uninstalled. Here’s how
As a marketer, we realize that the more data we can get from users, the better we serve them. Howev…
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Personal data of over 1 billion Chinese users available for sale on the dark web
"It includes name, address, national ID, mobile, police and medical records from one Asian cou…
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Facebook got 49,000 requests for user data from the Indian government in 2019 — that’s the most after US
As per Facebook, government requests for user data from across the world increased by 9.5% in th…
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ByteDance's head of security says it's impossible for China to get hold of TikTok user data because it's stored in the US
ByteDance global chief security officer Roland Cloutier said China has no jurisdiction over TikTok …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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GDPR compliant firms should find it easy to adhere to draft Personal Data Protection Bill in India
That may not be the best news for users in terms of privacy and its implementation, but if fir…
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Flipboard resets user passwords after recent data breach
The app has over one million downloads in Google Play Store but the company has not disclosed ho…
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Twitter clears away 143,000 malicious apps in three months
So, it’s no surprise that Twitter is trying to get ahead of the problem since there have alr…
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Facebook says user data requests from the Indian government increased by 10% in the second half of 2020
India with 40,300 requests was second to the US in terms of asking Facebook to provide user data in…
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After data from half a billion Facebook users was leaked, the company isn't planning to tell people if they were impacted
Facebook accidentally leaked the personal information of over 533 million users, but is unable to a…
Ben Gilbert
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Millions of Facebook users' data was leaked
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Lauren Johnson
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Google fired 80 employees for abusing user data and spying on people, with some even sharing personal information outside the company, a new report says
Dozens of Google employees were fired between 2018 and 2020 for using internal tools to view person…
Katie Canales
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Google disclosed times it provided user data to Hong Kong authorities, even though it said last year it was going to stop
The company became the first US tech giant to disclose its compliance with data requests from the H…
Francis Agustin
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CBI to investigate the misuse of Indian user data by Cambridge Analytica
The probe will investigate whether the activities of the British firm violated any clause of the…
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Sen. Ron Wyden is introducing a privacy bill that would ban government agencies from buying personal information from data brokers
The bill, dubbed "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale," is expected to roll out in the coming week…
Katie Canales
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A leaked Facebook PR memo shows how the company plans to downplay data leaks obtained through 'scraping' and sidestep criticism
The Facebook PR email said it planned to frame data scraping as a "broad industry issue" to avoid c…