April Glaser writes: When Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on something, it usually involves symbolic acts of patriotism or minimally decent acts of disaster relief. Add to that list: giving Mark Zuckerberg the third degree—and insisting that his company face some kind of consequence for the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how cavalierly it has…
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Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs
Update: this story seems to have been removed from ThreatPost after it was posted. Related to apps sharing personal information, Tom Spring reports: Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted…
Many child-oriented apps potentially violate US’ child privacy law
Williams Pelegrin writes: In a study published in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies journal, researchers at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley found that over half of child-oriented Android apps might be in violation of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Titled “‘Won’t Somebody Think of the…
Google Has to Hit Delete After Right to Be Forgotten Turns to Crime
Jonathan Browning and Gaspard Sebag report: Google’s effort to rein in the so-called right to be forgotten has taken a hit after U.K. and French judges said the reputation of businessmen tarnished by old news stories about improper conduct trumped the public’s need to know. Google was told by a London judge on Friday for…