Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit.

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Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS?

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Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data. The Markup helped Consumer Reports recruit participants for the study. Participants downloaded an archive of the previous three years of their data from their Facebook settings, then provided it to Consumer Reports...

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How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting.

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A federal court judge gave U.S. regulators the green light to prohibit Meta from monetizing the data its various entities – including Facebook and Instagram – collect from users under the age of 18, one of several restrictions the Federal Trade Commission said in May it would put on the giant social media company. U.S...

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Don’t be square: Newly-unsealed COPPA suit says Zuck’s mob knows full well there are loads of users under the age of 13, but did nothing.

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Meta, Google, and giant tax preparer H&R Block are being accused of conspiring to illegally use spyware from the tech giants to collect and share tax return information from hundreds of taxpayers that could be used to generate targeted online ads. The three companies – along with Google parent Alphabet – are the targets of..

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