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Facebook hit with three privacy investigations in a single day

Third time fortunate — until you’re Facebook . The social networking massive used to be hit Thursday by way of a trio of investigations over its privacy practices following a specifically tumultuous month of safety lapses and privacy violations — the newest in a string of embarrassing and harmful breaches at…
Third time lucky — unless you’re Facebook . The social networking giant was hit Thursday by a trio of investigations over its privacy practices following a particularly tumultuous month of security lapses and privacy violations — the latest in a string of embarrassing and damaging breaches at…

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Author: Zack Whittaker

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Zack Whittaker has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Californias attorney general Xavier Becerra has accused Facebook of continuing to drag its feet by failing to provide documents to the states investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica". (November 6, 2019)
  2. "Google said Wednesday its making a handful of privacy changes for users. In a blog post, the search giant said itll make it easier for users to go incognito and pause data collection as they use Googles mobile apps". (June 24, 2020)
  3. "Theres a reason why Data Privacy Day pisses me off. January 28 was the annual Hallmark holiday for cybersecurity, ostensibly a day devoted to promoting data privacy awareness and staying safe online". (January 31, 2020)
  4. "Butlr's privacy-friendly body heat sensors don't know who you are only where you are". (July 23, 2020)
  5. "A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds of millions of Venmo transactions in a similar feat". (June 16, 2019)
  6. "Experts say centralized databases of citizens' location data pose a security and privacy risk". (May 8, 2020)
  7. "The academics' letter advocates for decentralized contact tracing to avoid "unprecedented" surveillance". (April 20, 2020)
  8. "“The future is private.” Clearly, Facebook still has a way to go". (August 14, 2019)
  9. "Hackers will soon be able to stress-test the Facebook Portal at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, following the introduction of the social media giant’s debut hardware device last year". (August 28, 2019)
  10. "Google said Wednesday its making a handful of privacy changes. In a blog post, the search giant said itll make it easier for users to go incognito and pause data collection as they use Googles mobile apps". (June 24, 2020)
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