Zack Whittaker reports: Twitter has said it used phone numbers and email addresses, provided by users to set up two-factor authentication on their accounts, to serve targeted ads. In a disclosure Tuesday, the social media giant said it did not know how many users were impacted. Read more on TechCrunch.
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FBI’s Use of Foreign-Surveillance Tool Violated Americans’ Privacy Rights, Court Found
Dustin Volz and Byron Tau report: Some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, a secretive surveillance court has ruled. The ruling deals a rare rebuke to U.S. spying activities that have generally withstood legal challenge or review….
Attacker pinpointed victim’s home from eye image posted to social media
This sounds like it should be fiction. Scary nightmare-inducing fiction. NHK reports: A man who attacked a woman working as a so-called idol reportedly located her home by using an image reflected in her eyes in a photo on social media. Twenty-six-year-old Hibiki Sato was indicted on Tuesday for attacking the woman in her 20s….
More Teenagers Mistakenly Think “Private” Chat Conversations Will Remain Private–People v. JP
Eric Goldman writes: This is a story of four teenage girls and one teenage boy. The girls use the aliases “7Up” (a/k/a JP, the defendant in this case), “Lady Gaga,” “Dream Ruiner,” and “Me.” The boy, called S, allegedly engaged in anti-social behavior towards some of the girls (pushing their books off their desks and…