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Data breaches are almost always tied to a site, service, or subscription, which gives you some control over your fate: You can change your password, monitor any suspicious activity, or delete your account. But a new reported breac...
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The New York attorney general’s office is launching an investigation into Facebook for harvesting 1.5 million users’ email contact data without their consent, after the practice was revealed by Business Insider last we...
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Facebook appears to be on the verge of making one of its biggest legal problems go away for what to it is little more than chump change. It sounds like a bad joke, but it’s true. And you can almost hear Mark Zuckerberg guffa...
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Almost everyone’s Googled themselves at some point, curious at what sort of info Google has picked up about them. And if you have, chances are you’ve stumbled upon a site like Whitepages, which archives personal info a...
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JCPenney, the American department store chain that’s been around for 117 years, announced on Twitter that it will no longer support Apple Pay in its stores or online. JCPenney acknowledged this move for the first time on Sat...
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The good news about iPhone security is that a thief or over-curious stranger has virtually no chance of getting to the data on your phone unless you’ve put the passcode on a yellow sticky note and affixed it to the back of t...
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Facebook harvested 1.5 million users’ email contact data without their consent, and experts say that in doing so the company may have violated American and European Union laws. On Wednesday, Business Insider revealed that th...
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Facebook has stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in an unencrypted format easily readable by its employees for years, the latest in a series of high-profile security missteps committed by the Silicon Valley giant. ...
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Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new ...