insert_link Tech Made Simple Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online According to security researcher Alon Gal, Personal data from 533 million Facebook accounts has reportedly leaked online for free. Business Insider has stated that it has verified several of the leaked records. “The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in […] todayApril 5, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data You may have never heard of the company X-Mode Social, but its code may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data. Now, Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to it. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the tech companies have told developers to remove X-Mode’s code from their apps, or risk getting them pulled from their respective app stores. X-Mode […] todayDecember 17, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Zoom updates iOS app to remove code that sent device data to Facebook Video conferencing app Zoom updated its iOS app last Friday to remove code that sent user data to Facebook, Motherboard reports. The update follows Motherboard’s analysis of the app, which showed it was sending data to Facebook such as a user’s time zone and city, when a user opened the app, and details about the user’s device, even if the user didn’t have a Facebook account. The extent of the […] todayApril 1, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Could Snapchat Employees be Spying on You? Companies store a ton of data. You know this. Everyone knows this. But we’re not always happy about the kinds of data they store. We rightfully get pretty touchy when we hear our address, credit card number, mental health inquiries, or private conversations are just hanging out on some internet server where they might wind up in the wrong hands — like, say, an employee of the company that collected […] todayMay 29, 2019
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