Border Agents Fail to Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-customs-fails-to-delete-personal-data-after-electr-1831006534
regularly leaving the personal data of travelers on USB drives.
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed […] even if their account was set to private.
How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/technology/prevent-location-data-sharing.html
Unlike iPhones, Android phones don’t allow you to restrict an app’s access to your location to just the moments when you’re using it.
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge
Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
Quora Hacked
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update
We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
Forbrukerrådet: – Google fører brukerne bak lyset
https://nrkbeta.no/2018/11/27/forbrukerradet-google-forer-brukerne-bak-lyset/
– Vi mener forbrukere manipuleres til å overvåkes når de benytter Googles tjenester. Dette skjer gjennom en rekke ulike metoder som å tilbakeholde eller skjule informasjon, benytte villedende designgrep[…]
EU watchdog: LinkedIn processed email addresses of 18M non-members and targeted them with advertising on Facebook without permission before GDPR became a law
Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/facebook-bug-website-leak-likes-interests-profile/
The vulnerability exposed the user and their friends’ interests, even if their privacy settings were set so that interests were only visible to the user’s friends
Children’s Commissioner calls for transparency on data gathered from children
A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.