March 22, 2018

New whistleblower says Facebook turned a blind eye to covert data harvesting

Sandy Parakilas, formerly responsible for policing data breaches, said ignorance was bliss and assumed to protect Facebook from liability.

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March 19, 2018

Facebook loses control of 50 million users’ data, suspends analytics firm

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica for violating its platform policies.

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February 13, 2018

Beware the ‘celebrities’ offering you free cryptocoins on Twitter

Who CAN you trust if you can't trust @DoonaldTrump65, promising Ethereum to all comers like he's a cryptocurrency version of Oprah Winfrey?

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January 18, 2018

Hijackers DM @realDonaldTrump from former Fox News hosts’ accounts

The hackers tweeted out love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "We love turkish soldiers, we love Erdogan, we love Turkey."

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January 17, 2018

Twitter denies claims that it snoops on your private messages

Twitter has pushed back against allegations that its employees "view everything" users post on their servers, including private messages

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October 13, 2017

Judge slaps down government’s dragnet trawl of 1.3m website users

DreamHost said the decision "will protect the constitutional rights of innocent internet users worldwide"

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August 25, 2017

Judge scales back data demand on inauguration riot-related web host

DreamHost says the narrowing of scope is a 'huge win' for online privacy

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August 16, 2017

Bot armies of fake followers are the footsoldiers of fake news

Actual humans are left in the dust by the army of bots who pick up and amplify fake news - but how should they be stopped?

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July 12, 2017

News in brief: probe in Jupiter fly-by; footage of politician ‘not illegal’; Trump sued over Twitter block

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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