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Twitter hack probe results in name for cybersecurity guidelines for social media giants

An investigation into this summer season’s Twitter hack by the New York State Division of Monetary Companies (NYSDFS) has ended with a stinging rebuke for a way simply Twitter let itself be duped by a “simple” social engineering approach — and with a wider name for key social medi…
An investigation into this summer’s Twitter hack by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) has ended with a stinging rebuke for how easily Twitter let itself be duped by a “simple” social engineering technique — and with a wider call for key social medi…

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  2. "The Australia government has said it will adopt a mandatory code to require tech giants such as Google and Facebook to pay local media for reusing their content. The requirement for them to share ad revenue with domestic publishers was reported earlier by Reuters". (April 20, 2020)
  3. "The UK government has taken the next step in its grand policymaking challenge to tame the worst excesses of social media by regulating a broad range of online harms naming the existing communications watchdog, Ofcom, as its preferred pick for enforcing rules around harmful speech&#82". (February 12, 2020)
  4. "Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to". (August 7, 2019)
  5. "Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach that dates back around two years". (August 20, 2020)
  6. "Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize seeking to mobilize its users against big media". (August 17, 2020)
  7. "European antitrust regulators now have until almost the end of the year to take a decision on whether to green light Googles planned acquisition of Fitbit". (September 23, 2020)
  8. "Googles lead data regulator in Europe has finally opened a formal investigation into the tech giants processing of location data, more than a year after receiving a series of complaints from consumer rights groups across Europe". (February 4, 2020)
  9. "Human rights charity Amnesty International is the latest to call for reform of surveillance capitalism blasting the business models of surveillance giants Facebook and Google in a new report which warns the pairs market dominating platforms are enabling human rig". (November 21, 2019)
  10. "Googles lead data regulator in Europe has finally opened a formal investigation into the tech giants processing of location data more than a year after receiving a series of complaints from consumer rights groups across Europe". (February 4, 2020)
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