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New Year, New Facebook: Social Network Introduces More Privacy Tools
Mark Zuckerberg may have eschewed his New Year’s resolution tradition, but Facebook is picking up where he left off. The social network on Tuesday announced new privacy tools meant to give users more […]
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Report: Google Collecting Personal Health Data on Millions
Google is reportedly collecting detailed health information from millions of people across 21 states*. The tech titan began the initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” in secret last year with St. Louis-based healthcare system Ascension, […]
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YouTube Fined $170M For Alleged Child Privacy Law Violation
Google and subsidiary YouTube are being fined a record $170 million for alleged violations of children’s privacy law. The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General claim YouTube illegally collected personal information […]
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Minnesota Cop Awarded $585K Over Unlawful License Lookups
A federal jury last week awarded Minnesota police officer Amy Krekelberg $585,000 after colleagues unlawfully accessed her private information online. Officers from the Minneapolis Police Department searched for Krekelberg’s photograph, address, age, height, […]
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Researchers Discover Two More Cases of Facebook Data Exposure
Facebook is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Cybersecurity firm UpGuard this week reported two more cases of third-party app data exposure. One, originating from Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva, […]
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Myspace ‘Sorry’ For Losing 12 Years of Content
Myspace has apologized for losing more than a decade of data in a possible server migration error. A message on the social network warns folks that any photos, videos, and audio files uploaded […]
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Study: Social Media Sites Can Predict Behavior—Even If You Don’t Have an Account
You can run but you can’t hide from social media. A new study likens privacy on social networks to second-hand smoke: It’s controlled by the people around you. In a paper published by […]
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