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"Facebook did a great job," said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower's arrest was based on hearsay.
The European Commission said Monday it had begun a "preliminary investigation" into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it. read more
Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of 'Data Transfer Project,' an initiative the company launched last year in collaboration...
But Judge Rules Plaintiff in 2018 Breach Case Not Eligible for CompensationVictims of a massive 2018 Facebook data breach can continue a class-action lawsuit to try and force the social network to...
Malicious mobile apps could be created to scrape and share profile information, email addresses and more.
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Twitter and Facebook this week took action against malicious mobile software development kits (SDKs) that were used to improperly access user data. read more
Two third-party software development kits integrated by over hundreds of thousands of Android apps have been caught holding unauthorized access to users' data associated with their connected...
Rogue SDKs covertly harvested personal info, it is claimed Twitter and Facebook on Monday claimed some third-party apps quietly collected swathes of personal information from people's accounts...
Amnesty International issued a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their...