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A new Facebook privacy flaw allowed thousands of children on Messenger Kids to enter group chats with strangers

Facebook’s Messenger Kids is supposed to provide parents complete control over who their children chat can with on the app. But as The Verge reported on Monday, that key promise appears to have been broken, thanks to a design flaw with the app. According to the report, Messenger Kids had a design flaw that allows for a situation in which a child can enter a group chat with other users — including adults — who hadn’t been preapproved by their parents.… Read more

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Contractor’s server exposes data from Fortune 100 companies: Ford, Netflix, TD Bank

Attunity, an Israeli IT firm that provides data management, warehousing, and replication services for the world’s biggest companies, has exposed some of its customers’ data after it left three Amazon S3 buckets exposed on the internet without a password. The AWS S3 buckets contained information on Attunity’s own operations, but also data from some of its customers — Fortune 100 companies like Ford, Netflix, and TD Bank.… Read more

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How to permanently delete Facebook from your life

Buh-bye, Facebook. It’s been real.  So you’ve had it with endless scrolling through the News Feed, notifications that wake you up in the middle of the night, memories that remind you how little your life has changed over the years, and groups that are just too big and you don’t even know why you joined in the first place.  In short, you want to delete Facebook from your life. … Read more

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IBM didn’t inform people when it used their Flickr photos for facial recognition training

IBM took nearly a million photos from Flickr, used them to figure out how to train facial recognition programs, and shared them with outside researchers. But as NBC points out, the people photographed on Flickr didn’t consent to having their photos used to develop facial recognition systems — and might easily not have, considering those systems could eventually be used to surveil and recognize them.… Read more

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The best VPN solution for iOS and OS X: Encrypt.me

Most technology enthusiasts have probably heard the term VPN. It’s especially thrown around the enterprise IT world. In fact, “per app VPN” is one of the key enterprise features of iOS 7. So what exactly is VPN? VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. In short, it connects a client device (Mac, PC, iPhone, etc.) that is using an unsecured Wi-Fi or wired connection to a secured network before transmitting data.… Read more