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.
Category: Online
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…
Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices
Salvador Rodriguez reports: In early 2018, a Facebook user made a public threat on the social network against one of the company’s offices in Europe. Facebook picked up the threat, pulled the user’s data and determined he was in the same country as the office he was targeting. The company informed the authorities about the…
Facebook screens posts for suicide risk, and health experts have concerns
Jacqueline Howard reports: A pair of public health experts has called for Facebook to be more transparent in the way it screens posts for suicide risk and to follow certain ethical guidelines, including informed consent among users. The social media giant details its suicide prevention efforts online and says it has helped first responders conduct…