Kurt Wagner reports: Facebook Inc. said it unknowingly gave outside developers access to private user information shared within some groups on its main social network, including the names and profile photos of people who were part of those groups. The company disclosed the issue Tuesday, saying that for the past 18 months some third-party developers…
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I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.
Kashmir Hill reports on what she discovered when she managed to get her file from a company that produces — and sells — analyses of consumers (consumer scores): … Most recently, in April, The Journal’s Christopher Mims looked at a company called Sift, whose proprietary scoring system tracks 16,000 factors for companies like Airbnb and…
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
Jon Brodkin reports: Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry’s lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers’ fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers’ Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives…
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School
Caroline Haskins has a must-read article about Gaggle that is part of a BuzzFeed News package on schools and social media surveillance. This article begins: For the 1,300 students of Santa Fe High School, participating in school life means producing a digital trail — homework assignments, essays, emails, pictures, creative writing, songs they’ve written, and chats…