Several Sprint customers have said they are seeing other customers’ personal information in their online accounts. One reader emailed TechCrunch with several screenshots describing the issue, warning that they could see other Sprint customers’ names and phone numbers. The reader said they informed the phone giant of the issue, and a Sprint representative said they ... Facebook on Friday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that it says will help the social network detect revenge **** — the nonconsensually shared intimate images that, when posted online, can have devastating consequences for those who appear in the photos. The technology will leverage both AI and machine learning techniques to proactively detect near-**** ... Digital identity startup Passbase has bagged $600k in pre-seed funding led by a group of business angel investors from Alphabet, Stanford, Kleiner Perkins, EY; as well as seed fund investment from Chicago-based Upheaval Investments and Seedcamp. The 2018-founded Silicon Valley-based startup — whose co-founder we chatted to briefly on camera at Disrupt Berlin — is ... The Eastern District of New York empaneled a Grand Jury into the ***** data dealings of Facebook. ... Apple is airing a new ad spot focused on privacy today in primetime. The spot is visually cued, with no dialog and a simple tagline: Privacy. That’s iPhone. In a series of humorous vignettes, the message is driven home that sometimes you just want a little privacy. The spot has only one line of text ...
Have you ever thought about how much of your personal data is relayed whilst you're browsing the internet? If you haven't, then maybe you should.
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Personal d... ... Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found. Security researcher Noam Rotem found an Elasticsearch server leaking millions of records each week, including customer data, orders, and payment records. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing anyone to search the data. Gearbest ranks ... Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Durov’s just wrote: “I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours.” It’s probably not a coincidence that ...
Google has made a curious addition to its Chrome browser.
With the release of Chrome 73, the browser has added the pro-privacy DuckDuckGo to its suite of default search engines, alongside Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
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Sprint customers say a glitch exposed other people’s account information
Facebook says its new AI technology can detect ‘revenge ****’
Passbase is building a full stack identity engine with privacy baked in
There is a federal criminal investigation into Facebook’s data-sharing deals
Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature — privacy
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Gearbest security lapse exposed millions of shopping orders
Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
Google Chrome adds the privacy-first DuckDuckGo as a default option
Facebook won’t store data in countries with human rights violations — except Singapore