EU privacy watchdogs to look into harvesting of data from social media
European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political […]
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Facebook users aren’t changing their privacy settings, despite uproar
Since the Cambridge Analytica fallout, there have been demands for change, hearings and even a #DeleteFacebook campaign. But it turns […]
Lessons for Facebook from an academic social network
With Facebook under fire for inadequate privacy protections, how has one of the oldest academic social networks avoided the same […]
No, Facebook, It’s Not about Security; It’s About Privacy
Finally, Mark Zuckerberg has spoken. The short version of his response? “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and […]
U.S. to Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants
The State Department wants to require all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and […]
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and […]
Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This
After another privacy bombshell, Facebook tells horrified users, “it’s explained right there in the app.” In its current iteration, Facebook’s […]
UK watchdog wants disclosure rules for political ads on social media
The UK’s data protection agency will push for increased transparency into how personal data flows between digital platforms to ensure […]
How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing
You shouldn’t have to do this. You shouldn’t have to wade through complicated privacy settings in order to ensure that […]
How Facebook’s Data Sharing Went From Feature to Bug
Sure, third-party Facebook apps collected data about users’ lives. But they seemed convenient and harmless, and, really, what could go […]
What privacy pros can learn from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica revelations
Data lifecycle practices have appeared as standard issues on third-party risk-management checklists for years, particularly in regard to privacy and […]
Facebook’s rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign’s data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users […]