After a data blackout of official COVID-19 figures by the Brazilian government, dozens of volunteer developers are working to ensure the information is public
After a data blackout of official Covid-19 figures, Brazilian software developers decided to build alternative tallies. Tweets: @jstrauss , @cengizyar , @mikestucka , @telliotter , @dancow , @fleckgio...
FOIA docs show a former top DHS official, now at Google, was involved in Trump's family separation policy, despite Google's explicit denials to concerned staff
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @ben_orlebeke , @davidmackau , @jstrauss , @slpng_giants , and @rmac18 Tweets: Ben Orlebeke / @ben_orlebeke : The worst part of this story is how quickly we're already moving ...
Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission
“'A little less creepy' is still creepy.” Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Zoom for Mac makes it too easy for hackers to access webcams. Here's what to do Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News : The Zoom Desktop A...
Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week's privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don't know their actions are tracked or sent to senders
at all”, https://mikeindustries.com/... Daniel Vassallo / @dvassallo : When you're beholden to investors: https://mikeindustries.com/... by @mikeindustries https://twitter.com/... J-Strizzle / @jstrau...
The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
Social security numbers … Phil Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria : Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers Guise Bule / Hacker Noon : Lies & Extortion: How Equifax, Fire Eye & The Darknet Threw Oil O...
Security expert Amihai Neiderman says he's found 40 zero-day flaws in Tizen, Samsung's OS that runs on phones, smartwatches, and over 30M smart TVs
but it's even more buggy. http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... J-Strizzle / @jstrauss : Exploding phones and now this. I think iPhone is safe from competition for a while (& Samsung should invest in QA) h...
Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself
on Facebook MacDailyNews : Former Facebook workers: We routinely suppressed conservative news Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable : Conservative media downplayed on Facebook? What else is new, says conservati...