April 20, 2020

Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers

The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars.

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November 27, 2018

LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users

What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.

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September 18, 2018

91 “child friendly” Android apps accused of exploitation

New Mexico's AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus Google's and Twitter's ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids' data.

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August 01, 2018

High-schoolers’ data put up for sale after being scraped from surveys

Millions of students' data is being sold after being harvested from college-planning questionnaires or surveys that come with the SAT or PSAT tests.

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April 18, 2018

Facebook: 3 reasons we’re tracking non-users

It's just how the internet works, Facebook said.

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March 29, 2018

Facebook revamps security, privacy settings following huge data scandal

Facebook says it's going to reach into the 20 or so dusty corners where it's tucked away privacy and security settings and pull them into a centralized spot for users.

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March 28, 2018

Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked

The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.

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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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January 09, 2018

Facebook bug could have exposed your phone number to marketers

Self-service ad-targeting tools could have squeezed users' phone numbers from their email addresses... verrrrry sloooowly.

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