Kim Tong-hyung reports: Internet company SK Communications found itself hammered by bloggers and digital rights advocates after attempting to change its privacy policies. The company, which provides immensely popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social media services and Nate-On instant messengers, is now saying it has scrapped its earlier plan to require customers to submit the media access…
Month: July 2010
100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all users who haven’t bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. Bowes’ directory contains 171 million entries,…
Privacy Suit Targets Net Giants Over Zombie Cookies
Ryan Singel writes: A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to recreate cookies deleted by users. At issue is technology from Quantcast,…
Second suit over Lower Merion webcam snooping
Derrick Nunnally reports: The letter from Lower Merion school administrators delivered the news three weeks ago – her son had been secretly monitored by the webcam on his school-issued laptop. But only when Fatima Hasan saw the evidence did the scope of the spying on her son Jalil become apparent. There were more than 1,000…