In a letter to Sen. Wyden, data broker Mobilewalla says it was the source of some data used by the DHS, IRS, and US military for warrantless tracking of devices
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @byrontau , @anthony , @byrontau , @lrozen , @rebeccaballhaus , and @ronwyden Tweets: Byron Tau / @byrontau : How your phone became a spy: Five people who wo...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign
it's a clarion warning call for the upcoming election. https://twitter.com/... Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance : GOP Senators signed off on the report's conclusion Trump discussed Wikileaks' release of...
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog
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In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Sources: Facebook's probe of its platform's developers finds that some developers who took large chunks of data are out of business and some won't cooperate
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @rebeccaballhaus and @rmac18 Tweets: Rebecca Ballhaus / @rebeccaballhaus : Three months in, Facebook's internal probe into the potential misuse of us...
Facebook has lost nearly $50B in market cap since Friday; 129M+ shares of Facebook stock changed hands on Tuesday, its biggest trading day since 2014
and cut them off James Vincent / The Verge : Academic who collected 50 million Facebook profiles: ‘We thought we were doing something normal’ Wall Street Journal : Facebook's Lax Data Policies Led to ...
Sources: Facebook's security team told execs about Russian election tampering in Dec. 2016; late public disclosure was due to image concerns, Mueller gag order
Social-media giant played down allegations Russia exploited its platform, deepening perceptions it is oblivious to public concern about its social impact Tweets: @juliacarriew , @persuasivepr , @noahs...