Facebook to give academics access to political advertising data
Facebook will open up targeting information for more than 1.3m social issue, electoral and political ads to researchers .
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This Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Look Up Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
The person selling access to the service claims it has data on 500 million Facebook users.
Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot
DOJ files charges against alleged rioter after the FBI raided his Facebook account, including private messages and an IP address that plotted his approximate locations.
Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant
The U.S. government is using app-generated marketing data based on the movements of millions of cellphones around the country for some forms of law enforcement.
Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns
Health Ministry releases details of agreement with coronavirus vaccine producer, but redacted document doesn’t address all questions, including some ethical worries.
Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
Facebook filed a lawsuit in Portugal against browser extension maker Oink and Stuff.
Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook last week.
Australia’s spy agencies caught collecting COVID-19 app data
A government watchdog said the data was scooped up “in the course of the lawful collection of other data.”
Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
Mobile Users Consented To Share Analytics Data With Developers, Google Argues
Google is urging a federal judge to dismiss claims that it violated mobile users’ privacy by sending analytics data about their web activity to outside developers.
How Your Digital Trails Wind Up in the Police’s Hands
Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests. They’ve become crucial tools for law enforcement, while users often are unaware.