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The Facebook scandal involving the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users has raised a lot of questions about social media and search engines. As Facebook founder and CEO Mark...
The State Department seeks to expand its social media vetting beyond flagged visa applicants The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details on the social media accounts...
Security experts are calling for a higher prioritization of data security in the wake of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Octoly's incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository.
Australian police accidentally broadcast on social media details of an operation to arrest a suspected North Korean agent -- three days before he was taken into custody, media reported Wednesday. read more
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A newly discovered backdoor that has managed to infect over one thousand Android devices was designed to steal sensitive data from popular social media applications, Google reveals. read more
Governments around the world are dramatically increasing their efforts to manipulate information on social media, threatening the notion of the Internet as a liberating technology, according to...
New rules give the DHS permission to collect "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" as part of people's immigration file. The Federal Register has...
