AI and the Evolution of Social Media
March 19 2024Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
Read moreFacebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
February 1 2024Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network:
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that...
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Facebook Enables Messenger End-to-End Encryption by Default
December 11 2023It’s happened. Details here, and tech details here (for messages in transit) and here (for messages in storage) Rollout to everyone will take months, but it’s a good day for...
Read moreSued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
March 8 2023The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just...
Read moreFacebook Fined $276M under GDPR
November 30 2022Facebook—Meta—was just fined $276 million (USD) for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location. Meta’s total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over...
Read moreHow social media scammers buy time to steal your 2FA codes
November 22 2022The warning is hosted on a real Facebook page; the phishing uses HTTPS via a real Google server... but the content is all fake
Read moreHow social media scammers buy time to steal your 2FA codes
November 22 2022The warning is hosted on a real Facebook page; the phishing uses HTTPS via a real Google server... but the content is all fake
Read moreInterview with Signal’s New President
October 20 2022Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker:
WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that...
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Facebook Has No Idea What Data It Has
September 8 2022This is from a court deposition:
Facebook’s stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on the same theme: It has amassed so much data on so many...
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