Emily Birnbaum reports: A group of patients and health data experts is accusing Facebook of misleading users about how their personal health information can be manipulated and exposed without patients’ explicit permission. In a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint released publicly on Tuesday, the group alleges that Facebook prompts its users to join online medical support groups under the guise that they are…
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Feds share terrorist watchlist with 1,400 private groups
Associated Press reports: The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, prompting concerns from civil libertarians that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a wide variety of hassles in their daily lives. The government’s admission that it shares the list…
NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
Issie Lapowsky reports that a “red team” exercise by NATO’s StratCom demonstrated that you can find out a lot about a military exercise just from open source data, and you can also find out about the participants…. whom you can then influence to disobey their orders. Yikes. Read more on WIRED about the government’s findings.
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas report: Twitter retains direct messages for years, including messages you and others have deleted, but also data sent to and from accounts that have been deactivated and suspended, according to security researcher Karan Saini. Saini found years-old messages in a file from an archive of his data obtained through the…