Facebook Records User Audio, Sparking Privacy Questions
Hundreds of contractors reportedly were hired to transcribe Messenger voice chats in order to test the accuracy of an AI algorithm — raising questions about what Facebook does with the data.
Privacy
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Blasted For Data Privacy Policies
A U.S. senator is giving the four telecommunications companies until Sept. 4 to outline how they plan to better protect customer data privacy.
4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data
Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users’ exact locations, just by knowing a user name.
Patient medical history and over 6 million email addresses tied to Democrats were detailed in a misconfigured storage buckets over the past few weeks.
Personal data of 2,000 journalists was found publicly accessible on a spreadsheet on the website for popular trade show E3.
Comprehensive testing of 21 free Android antivirus apps revealed big security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns; especially for AEGISLAB, BullGuard, dfndr and VIPRE.
Vast majority of Apple iOS users haven’t updated to iOS 12.4, leaving themselves wide open to a public exploit.
In addition, Google’s latest Chrome version implements 43 new security fixes.
Anyone can listen to the camera’s audio over the internet.
More than 100 million customers have had their data compromised by a hacker after a cloud misconfiguration at Capital One.
