I posted something yesterday to DataBreaches.net. I’m cross-posting it here today because I’m flabbergasted that eBay did not respond to inquiries by others and by me about this issue. Ina Steiner reports: In what appears to be a major breach of customer privacy, eBay is exposing customers’ real first and last names, as well as…
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Facebook’s new suicide detection A.I., could put thousands of innocent people behind bars
Joe Cadillic writes: Imagine police knocking on your door because you posted a ‘troubling comment’ on a social media website. Imagine a judge forcing you to be jailed, sorry I meant hospitalized, because a computer program found your comment(s) ‘troubling’. You can stop imagining, this is really happening. A recent TechCrunch article, warns that Facebook’s “Proactive…
Italy extends data retention to six years
Hermes Center reports: On 8 November 2017, the Italian Parliament approved a Regulation on data retention that allows telecommunication operators to save telephone and internet data for up to six years. The Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CILD) and EDRi observer member Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights published their statement…
Privacy breach: Twitter admits a bug affected some users recently
Oyibo writes: Twitter has admitted a privacy breach must have happened to some of its users after specific locations included with some users’ tweets were revealed without their permission last week due to a “bug”. “We’ve discovered an issue for a small percentage of people who recently had location-sharing on, Tweeted from Twitter.com, and tapped…