Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based challenge will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics get entry to to massive troves of client data.
Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.Original article
Author: Wired

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  3. "The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data". (December 14, 2018)
  4. "Opinion: Kids today have an online presence starting at birth, which raises a host of legal and ethical concerns. We desperately need a new data protection framework". (July 7, 2019)
  5. "Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools by conducting simple Facebook searches". (April 5, 2019)
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  7. "The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny". (July 17, 2019)
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