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Some 330 million users urged to change passwords after apparent bug left data in plain site. In a series of tweets and a blog Twitter announced that due to a software glitch, millions of Twitter users passwords had been stored in plain text files without any encryption. The good news... Read more
Cambridge Analytica Closes Doors After Facebook Data Harvesting Scandal
NewsPrivacy and SecuritySocial Media May 3, 2018
The data gathering firm at the epicenter of Facebook privacy row has closed its offices and started insolvency proceedings. Cambridge Analytica, has announced in a statement it is closing its business down after fighting months of accusations that it improperly obtained the personal information of thousands of Facebook users... Read more
Cambridge Researcher May Sue Facebook Over Data Breach Allegations
BusinessNewsSocial Media April 27, 2018
Aleksandr Kogan considers his position in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The recent Facebook data breach–which Facebook has taken great pains to point out was not a typical data breach–has metaphorically opened a lot of people’s eyes to how their data is gathered, stored, and used by... Read more
Facebook Moves Millions Of Users Data To US To Avoid European Privacy Laws
NewsSocial Media April 26, 2018
Zuckerberg’s promise to uphold ‘spirit’ of new EU data protection rules quietly put to the side just days after making it… The social media giant, Facebook has begun moving user data from its servers in Ireland back to the USA in order to avoid having to comply with new... Read more
Weibo Reverses Gay ‘Clean-Up’ Ban After Online Public Backlash
InternetNewsSocial Media April 20, 2018
Popular Chinese social media platform had targeted content that it deemed ‘illegal’ including ‘videos with pornographic implications, promoting violence or (related to) homosexuality’. Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites, stated that the new guidelines were solely put in place to “create a bright and harmonious community... Read more
Russian Government Tries To Ban Telegram Encrypted Privacy App
MobileNewsSocial Media April 10, 2018
Roskomnadzor, the Russian state’s communications authority and regulator, moves to block Telegram messaging service after company refuses to hand over decryption keys to private messages. The state agency had ordered Telegram to provide back door keys to all of its encrypted messages. The request was denied by the tech giant, partly... Read more
New two-second videos offer GIF-like feature for dating app. Online dating has gone from a “path of last resort” for desperate singles looking to cast a broader net to becoming the go-to way to meet like-minded and romantically interested people. It’s a multi-billion dollar a year industry with fierce... Read more
Upcoming GDPR rules mean data compliance will be mandatory. In the digital age, information is the new hot-ticket currency. Often, companies, third-parties, and even cybercriminals would rather get their hands on users’ data than money, since the potential payoff from having access to sensitive information could be exponentially higher... Read more
Are We Finally Doing Something About Facebook?
NewsSocial Media March 22, 2018
Cambridge Analytica scandal brings focus onto data privacy issues. For all of his squeaky clean, boy next door, All-American good looks and charm, Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the man that the public loves to hate, all thanks to piles of allegations that Facebook aided outside operatives who were... Read more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology research studied 126,000 fake Twitter ‘stories’. A famous quote often attributed to Mark Twain is the one that goes “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. Twain apparently wrote that in 1919. His death almost a... Read more
Things got hot at this year’s Winter Olympics. The Olympic games are about national pride, gold medal achievements, record-breaking athletic accomplishments, and, well, hooking up. Each year, regardless of venue, the Olympic Village that hosts most of the athletes distributes in the neighborhood of 100,000 condoms to the athletes,... Read more
Poor encryption blamed for access to user data. Tinder’s geographically-based social networking “meet new people” model is responsible for introducing the concept of swiping right to society, but it’s also credited with a new problem: cybersecurity. Specifically it’s one of a growing number of apps and platforms whose encryption... Read more
Facebook Ordered To Stop Tracking Web Users In Belgium
NewsSocial Media February 21, 2018
Facebook dramatically loses lawsuit and could end up facing total fines of some $156,000,000 (100 million euro) if it continues to break the country’s privacy laws by tracking its users on third-party websites. The high profile case against the social-media giant was brought by Belgium’s privacy watchdog, who claimed... Read more
Facebook Reveals It’s Officially Testing ‘Downvote’ Button
NewsSocial Media February 19, 2018
Facebook has admitted that is officially testing out a ‘downvote’ button in a new system similar to the one that Reddit and other social media sites have been using for years. The ‘downvote’ option suddenly appeared in several users feeds last week in the comments section of posts within Facebook... Read more
Logan Paul Won’t Be Banned From YouTube
NewsSocial Media February 16, 2018
The controversial YouTube ‘star’ Logan Paul hasn’t done enough yet to deserve to be banned from YouTube, the video sharing site’s Chief Executive Officer has said. Logan Paul has been severely criticized in recent months for the content shown in videos he has created and shared on the site,... Read more
Canonical and Microsoft co-operation lets users install Skype in a Snap. At last! Skype is now available as a snap on Linux desktop. The news means that it’s now easier than ever to install the popular video calling tools in most popular versions of Linux such as Ubuntu and Linux... Read more
Reddit Joins Other Site To Ban ‘DeepFake’ Involuntary Porn
NewsSocial Media February 10, 2018
Reddit has become the latest on-line platform to remove and ban high quality fake pornographic material from its website. Reddit introduced its new rules banning the uploading, and sharing of what it referred to as involuntary pornography. The site joins several other well known digital brands such as Twitter, Gyfcat and... Read more
Facebook Loses 700,000 Users In USA For First Time
NewsSocial Media February 2, 2018
New data reveals a decline in both the amount of time people are spending on Facebook , and a near one million drop in users from North America and Canada. For the first time EVER Facebook has experienced a drop in user numbers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the reduction in numbers was inevitable, as... Read more