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 | …
Is Facebook is breaking UK data laws? But there is good news from Facebook.
Cambridge Analytica was someone else’s problem (SEP) but a high court case is soon to decide whether Meta and Facebook are breaking UK data privacy laws: Facebook sued for collecting personal data to target adverts | Meta | The Guardian Tanya O’Carroll is claiming Facebook is ignoring her requests to …
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UKGDPR is a good thing… mostly
I have listened to many businesses complain about the UKGDPR legislation – particularly web designers and marketing companies – many citing that users do not like it (of course it has nothing to do with how they now have to look after personally identifiable information properly and justify their use …
Facebook and Instagram tracking
Felix Krause, a privacy consultant and one time Google engineer has an article examining how Meta tracks users when they follow links from Meta websites using the iOS apps: iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause (krausefx.com) …
