Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:29:18 +0000

In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wo6BHh–3_s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:03:45 +0000

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/8FHvy_UlUI0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:35:28 +0000

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/D5CAYrR74gs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:41:38 +0000

They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SluZeVlpPlA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:37:45 +0000

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2grE-GBLP8Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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