News

2018

April

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• Facebook knows a ton about your health. Now they want to make money. In early April, MSNBC reported that Facebook recently launched a project based in its secretive “Building 8” group to get hospitals to share anonymized patient data with them. The project was reportedly put on hold…

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• A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes. Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people to review how Facebook applies data from web to target…

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• 1000s of apps in Google Play Store may be illegally tracking children. Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data-collection efforts. (Story updated with Google's response.)

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• Facebook is complicated. That shouldn’t stop lawmakers.. The biggest obstacle to regulating Facebook is not Congress’s lack of digital expertise. It’s a lack of political will.

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• Mulvaney leading Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a cliff. Accounts of the slow death of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are not exaggerations. In his just released report to Congress, the agency’s acting director, Mick Mulvaney, was clear about his mission. “The bureau is…

• I downloaded the information Facebook has on me. Yikes.. There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided…

• Facebook is now in the data-privacy spotlight. Could Google be next?. The quiet fear among the nation's tech elite, though, has been that extra attention on Facebook will reflect on everyone — Google, perhaps, most of all. The titan of search, smartphones and Web browsing makes…

• We need sound policy to quell the data arms race, protect users. More and more personal information is being vacuumed up and used to make judgements about people, sell them something or manipulate them in other ways, without regard to whether these practices are in line with…

• Esto es todo lo que Facebook guarda sobre ti. Cuando descargué una copia de los datos de mi cuenta de Facebook, nunca esperé ver tanto. Mi perfil no es muy abarcador; prácticamente no publico en el sitio ni le doy clic a los anuncios.…

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• An inside look at your favorite dating sites. What’s happening behind the scenes at the sites and apps you know and love and hate, along with a couple that may not be on your radar (or phone).

• Zuckerberg evidencia brecha generacional con legisladores. El director general de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, enfrentó el martes y el miércoles interrogatorios por parte de diversas comisiones del Senado y de la Cámara de Representantes para abordar los problemas de privacidad que aquejan…

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• Facebook empieza a alertar usuarios afectados por privacidad. Facebook comenzó a alertar el martes a ciertos usuarios que su información quedó comprometida debido al escándalo de privacidad de Cambridge Analytica.

• LO ÚLTIMO: Facebook rechaza baja de uso tras escándalo. Lo último sobre el escándalo de privacidad de Facebook y la comparecencia de Mark Zuckerberg ante el Senado...

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• Piden revisar normas de privacidad infantil en YouTube. Lea con detenimiento los términos del servicio de YouTube y se dará cuenta de que ha afirmado que tiene edad suficiente para ver el contenido de la plataforma de videos compartidos.

• Zuckerberg: FB no hizo lo suficiente para proteger usuarios. El director general de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, dijo que la red social no hizo lo suficiente para evitar que sus recursos fueran usados para hacer daño, según una declaración preparada de antemano que entregó a…

• El verdadero costo de una aplicación o servicio ‘gratuito’. Si hubiera que llegar a una sola conclusión general acerca de la filtración de datos en la que estuvo involucrada Cambridge Analytica, la consultora electoral que obtuvo información de más de 87 millones de cuentas…

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• Panera’s data breach puts attention on risks of loyalty programs. The records belonged to customers who had registered for the MyPanera program to order food online. The details exposed included their names, email and physical addresses, birthdays, and the last four digits of user credit card numbers, according…

• Facebook:‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities, collect data. Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide. The…

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• Mortgage applicants beware IRS ‘tax transcript’ program's security. Federal auditors say the popular “tax transcript” program run by the Internal Revenue Service and used by millions of mortgage applicants a year lacks adequate security protections against disclosures of tax-return details to people who…

• Mulvaney, Consumer Bureau’s chief, urges Congress to cripple agency. Mr. Mulvaney, a longtime and unapologetic critic of the financial crisis-era bureau, has spent the last several months freezing its enforcement activities, dropping cases on payday lenders and shutting out career staff from major decisions.…