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Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’

February 6, 2020 0 Comments alphabet, assembler, cheapfakes, deepfakes, disinformation, facebook, fake news, gan, generative adversarial network, Google, jigsaw, Machine Learning, shallowfakes, Social networks, stylegan, the current, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:52:30 +0000

Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6IJPjMtC2sA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter admits to raid on users’ phone numbers

February 5, 2020 0 Comments 2fa, android app, data loss, ibrahim balic, phone numbers, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, twitter, twitter phone numbers, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:20:13 +0000

It relates to Twitter’s contact upload feature, which allows users to find others via contact info such as email or phone number.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JjUJFBQ-IaQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter hands over student’s account to his college

February 4, 2020 0 Comments @sunygenseeo, access, account hijacking, account suspension, apology, geneseo, impersonation, impersonation policy, isaiah kelly, mistake, mockery, New York, parody account, policy, Social networks, state university of new york, suny, twitter, university

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:11:48 +0000

Twitter admitted it broke the rules when it handed over control of the student’s account to college administrators.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/THaPVg5m35Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl

January 29, 2020 0 Comments account hijacking, bears, bills, broncos, browns, bucs, cardinals, chiefs, colts, cowboys, eagles, facebook, football, giants, Hacked, hacking group, kansas city chiefs, khoros, national football league, nfl, ourmine, packers, san francisco 49ers, saudi arabia, security threats, Social networks, spredfast, super bowl, super bowl championship, texans, the 49ers, twitter, vikings

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:14:15 +0000

“We are here to show people that everything is hackable,” says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ukSkVZya4UE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

January 28, 2020 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, biometrics, BIPA, class action, clearview ai, david mutnick, facebook, faceprints, facial recognition, hoan ton-that, Illinois, illinois biometric information privacy act, Law & order, law enforcement, lawsuit, Machine Learning, Privacy, privacy law, Social networks, twitter, Venmo, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:51:21 +0000

A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9Wtt8BCE-R8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Teen entered ‘dark rabbit hole of suicidal content’ online

January 20, 2020 0 Comments bullying, cyberbullying, digital services tax, facebook, harm research, Instagram, molly russell, Privacy, psychiatrists, report, royal college of psychiatrists, self-harm, social media, Social networks, tax, turnover tax, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:49:07 +0000

Molly Russell’s grieving father has backed a psychiatrists’ report, saying that tech companies must be forced to hand over anonymized data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Yj7ryqZZEUA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images

December 20, 2019 0 Comments Epilepsy, epilepsy foundation, epileptic, gif, hashtags, kurt eichenwald, Law & order, national epilepsy awareness month, seizure, Social networks, strobes, strobing images, trollery, trolls, twitter

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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Jack Dorsey wants a decentralised Twitter

December 13, 2019 0 Comments activitypub, bluesky, decentralised, Jack Dorsey, mastodon, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:28:55 +0000

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced a research effort to explore a decentralised version of the microblogging platform.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BVqq8LVgZWE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter says it won’t delete tweets from those who have died

November 28, 2019 0 Comments account deletion, inactive accounts, memorialized account, purge, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:11:35 +0000

It “was a miss on our part”, Twitter said.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/71G_S3qaB6o” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>