Todd Spangler reports: Twitter disclosed that it anticipates being forced to pay an FTC fine of $150 million to $250 million related to alleged violations over the social network’s use of private data for advertising. The company revealed the expected scope of the fine in a 10-Q filing with the SEC. Twitter said that on July 28 it received…
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The College Board Is Sharing Student Data Once Again
Bill Fitzgerald had a concerning thread on Twitter yesterday about some research on College Board and the sharing of student data. I will not reproduce his whole thread here, but he points us to the team’s report on Consumer Reports, authored by Thomas Germain. The bullet points alone are enough to make you realize that…
San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
Dave Maass and Matthew Guariglia of EFF write: The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) conducted mass surveillance of protesters at the end of May and in early June using a downtown business district’s camera network, according to new records obtained by EFF. The records show that SFPD received real-time live access to hundreds of cameras…
‘Unforgivable’: The privacy breach that exposed sensitive details of WA’s virus fight
Kelly Haywood and Gary Adshead report: One of Western Australia’s biggest privacy breaches, which involves the interception of thousands of State Government communications, is under investigation. Nine News revealed on Monday evening that the most sensitive information to be hacked and posted to a public website relates to the management of the Covid-19 crisis in…