Facebook has denied any hacking of its accounts in India. Responding to media reports and complaints from some of its users over alleged tampering of profile pictures, the social networking firm has asserted that the reports were inaccurate.
"This is not true. Users photos are not being transferred to an unwanted site and no accounts have been compromised," a Facebook executive said.
Facebook has reduced the amount of personal data it releases to users as required by European Union law despite an ongoing audit by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.
The agency is auditing Facebook to see if it complies with the country's Data Protection Acts of 1988 and 2003, which transpose the E.U.'s Data Protection Directive, known as 95/46/EC. The laws allow people to request to see their personal data held by a company.
If the Obama administration wins a crucial case testing when police may use GPS devices to track American's whereabouts, investigators would be free to attach them to all nine members of the nation's highest court without a warrant.
Think Web trackers aren't following you? Think again. Just by visiting this Web site, roughly half a dozen ad networks and Web analytics companies have deposited tracking cookies on your machine. Don't freak out, it's not as bad as it seems.
In fact, there's an awful lot of hype, fear, and misinformation surrounding Web tracking -- and both sides are guilty of overstating the dangers of tracking, as well as the benefits. How much do you know about Web tracking? Take the following True/False quiz to find out. What follows is semi-informed opinion mixed with facts.
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council somehow managed to lose a memory stick that contained information on 18,000 of their residents. The stick, which was lost in May, contained details such as names, addresses and payment info but fortunately, no bank account records were present. As it turns out, the USB storage device had been used by an officer from the institution's finance department to collate information required for final accounts.
Every time a foreigner comes to the United States, their biometric data--fingerprints and photographs--are processed into a massive database called US-VISIT. The service prevents identity fraud and helps find criminals, and countries all over the world have adopted similar systems. Now Israel's has been hacked, leading to the leak of personal information of nearly every single citizen there (even some dead ones) onto the Internet.
A Boston Police Department website was hacked. At least 2,000 names and passwords have been posted online. The group claiming responsibility said they support the Occupy Boston movement.
Boston Police are warning some of their members that usernames and passwords were compromised. The investigation into who hacked the system was widening and the F.B.I. was brought in to assist.
In support for the Wall Street movement and as a form of retaliation against police brutality, the infamous hacktivits group attacked the websites of multiple law enforcement agencies and leaked tons of sensitive data of Pastebin.
Pastebin quickly moved to remove the posts, probably to clean itself of the “hacker's paradise” reputation they've earned recently, but one file still remains. The published information contains the mail credentials belonging to Boston Police Patrolmans' Association (BPPA) staff.
It looks as the great British public is finally losing its patience with those businesses that it views as endangering their personal data, as a survey from LogRhythm claims to show that many people are now aware of the need for data disclosure legislation.
According to the research – which took in responses from 2,000 people – many users now have an overwhelming desire for data loss disclosure laws. Researchers found that 80% of respondents said that they now have reservations about trusting organizations to keep their data safe from hackers.
Brooke Rutledge of Lafayette County, Mississippi has sued Facebook for allegedly violating federal wiretap laws by illegally tracking her Internet activity while logged out of the social networking site. The 17-page filing seems to have been prompted by a recent discovery by Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic. In late September, Cubrilovic released an article explaining how Facebook could track users across the Web on any page running a Facebook widget, such as the "Like" button seen at the bottom of TechSpot's articles.
