Jeremy Kirk reports: Germany is stopping short of legal action against Facebook after reaching a 14-point agreement on Monday over how the site handles data from non-Facebook users. Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority took issue with Facebook last August over its Friend Finder feature, which imports e-mail addresses from user contact lists on other e-mail services…
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The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks
It was on Christmas Day that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. “We were getting anecdotal reports saying, ‘It looks like someone logged into my account and deleted it,’” Sullivan said. For Tunisians, it was another…
Tunisia plants country-wide keystroke logger on Facebook – Gmail and Yahoo! too
John Leyden reports: Malicious code injected into Tunisian versions of Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo! stole login credentials of users critical of the North African nation’s authoritarian government, according to security experts and news reports. The rogue JavaScript, which was individually customized to steal passwords for each site, worked when users tried to login without availing…
UK: Schools’ secret reports on how parents look as they build database to fight truancy: Education chiefs keep database on hair, height and build
James Slack reports: Town hall bosses are compiling secret ‘Big Brother’ databases on the appearance of schoolchildren’s parents. Education officials say they are keeping the sensitive information in case they ever want to identify a parent for legal action. Forms are being given to staff asking them to comment on height, hair, and build, which…