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Chinese data leak exposes 364 million social media profiles, names, IDs, numbers, photos, private conversations
It is well known that China monitors conversations and social media accounts of its citizens.
Coinbase head of sales reveals data leak of their users
The blockchain community on Twitter called for a boycott and urged people to quit using Coinbase.
Facebook won’t let users opt-out of its privacy-violating phone number look up tool
This follows Facebook pushing users to submit their phone number in order to secure their account via two-factor authentication last year.
Facebook lobbied the former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to influence GDPR legislation
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook reportedly invited one of Osborne’s children to the Facebook office as a part of lobbying efforts.
Dissenter by Gab passes 125,000 comments in its first week
Dissenter has seen an explosion of activity in its first week with 125,090 comments being left by 38,000 users.
Outrage over German Police depending on Amazon’s cloud service for storing body cam videos
Storing such highly sensitive information with a private US company posed an ‘incalculable risk.’
Huawei: the US is scared we’ll stop NSA spying – it’s nothing to do with China
“Prism, Prism on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all?”
12.1 for macOS and 12.2 for iOS updates in the Safari browser have updated intelligent tracking prevention
The latest version of Safari will stop advertisers being able to track you around the internet indefinitely.
Apple shareholders vote down idea to reveal political beliefs
The motion was rejected by 98.3 percent of shareholders.
Steven Crowder responds to the bogus copyright claims from ABC and Disney
Crowder has given an update on the four false copyright claims which led to his Anti-Oscars Party YouTube live stream being taken down and uploads of the stream being blocked.
How to get around the Medium paywall – use Twitter
Medium put a gate in its paywall and is allowing users who arrive at Medium from Twitter to read stories without any limit subjected by the paywall.
New report highlights the dangers of big tech’s war on disinformation
Removing historic records sets a dangerous precedent that makes it difficult to figure out what actually happened retrospectively.