Connie Loizos writes: Sunday morning, some of the 2,301 Facebook friends of venture capitalist and Facebook board member Jim Breyer received a message from him, through Facebook. “Would You Like a Facebook Phone Number?” it asked, presenting a link to “see more details and RSVP.” While no one would be surprised by a service that…
Category: Breaches
Your Email Is Not Private (On One Side of the Hudson)
Adam B. writes: … NYC doctor’s office. Doctor installs keystroke logging software on an office computer and doesn’t tell anyone, and tells an employee to only use that computer. Doctor uses the results of the keystroke logging software to log into the employee’s personal email account, review emails, print out some of them, and emails…
UK: Tycoon’s wife gives taxman secret files
David Leppard: The wife of the tycoon at the centre of a £400m divorce is to hand secret files on his dealings with the super-rich to the taxman. Michelle Young, 45, who is divorcing her husband Scot, is to give HM Revenue & Customs a computer disk containing hundreds of pages of emails and other…
Yet another Facebook privacy risk. When is enough, enough?
Xeni Jardin reports on BoingBoing: …. Facebook base64-encodes your IP address in every emailed event that you interact with. Matt C. at Binary Intelligence Blog explains that Facebook’s automated email notifications (which go out when, say, a friend comments on your status or sends you a message) appear to contain the IP address of the…