Meta – the owners of Facebook – have been fined nearly £350m for the way they asked permission to use users personal information. The Irish Data Protection Commission found that Facebook had broken EU data protection laws, now Meta have three months to make fix things: Meta fined €390m over …
Meta settles the Cambridge Analytica privacy case
Over-sharing and lack of oversight can cost a lot of money: Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m – BBC News The Cambridge Analytica Files | The Guardian
Big Bucks Bug Bounty from Meta
Meta has offered a bug bounty of up to $300,000 if cyber security researchers can find remote code execution bugs in its systems and apps: Facebook to pay hackers up to $300,000 to uncover remote code execution bugs – The Record by Recorded Future
Big Tech and Child Abuse
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has released a report examining how the world’s biggest tech companies address child abuse – not what they say they do, but what actually happens. It does not make good reading. World-first report shows leading tech companies are not doing enough to tackle online child abuse | …
Fake Android app spotted by users but it still has a rating of 3.4 in the Google Play Store
Even though users are reporting that the app is fake in the reviews on Google Play Store, it is still available for download and getting positive ratings. Malicious Android app found powering account creation service (bleepingcomputer.com) The actions of the app to hijack account creation processes for major services such …
