A new contacts app and calendar functionality will pull your schedule and friends» contact
data from social networking sites.
Using
data from social networking sites sold to advertisers, Stanford researcher Arvind Narayanan demonstrated that it's hard to truly anonymize data before it's packaged and sold.
Thankfully the new semantics technology can bypass the arduous and time - consuming searching and reading, easily locating and dissecting
data from social networking sites and the web in an instant.
A new study conducted in collaboration with Facebook using anonymised
data from the social networking site shows a correlation between people's social and financial status, and the levels of internationalism in their friendship networks — with those from higher social classes around the world having fewer friends outside of their own country.
Not exact matches
For example, recently 6.5 million logins
from a major
social networking site were stolen and within a week almost two - thirds of those passwords had been cracked making a large proportion of the user base vulnerable to further exploitation and compromise of their personal
data.
He took seemingly innocuous pieces of personal
data that many people put online (birthplace and date of birth, both frequently posted on
social networking sites) and combined them with information from the Death Master File, a public database from the U.S. Social Security Administr
social networking sites) and combined them with information
from the Death Master File, a public database
from the U.S.
Social Security Administr
Social Security Administration.
Kobo's Reading Life app, now the highest rated e-reading app in the iTunes store and enjoying the highest user ratings
from any reading software, allows its readers to track their statistical reading
data, as well as earn badges and awards for their reading habits that can be shared on Facebook and other
social networking sites.
A new video
from Greenpeace is urging to
social - media giant to change its dirty ways by kicking coal to the curb, part of the latest criticism facing Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in regards to how the
site's
data - center in Oregon is to be powered.According to Greenpeace, the animated video entitled «The So Coal
Network,» was created to raise awareness about how Facebook intends to power it's new
data - center — yes, where all your online info will be stored.
As discussed in our previous chapter on
data breach nightmares, they have taken a variety of forms, ranging
from phishing scams and
social engineering attacks (e.g., using e-mail to trick attorneys to visit a malicious web
site or to be lured into fraudulent collection schemes for foreign «clients») to sophisticated technical exploits that result in long term intrusions into a law firm's
network to steal information.
Aside
from any
data collection purposes, this access allows the
social media
site to suggest potential connections with people the lawyer may know who are already members of the
social network, to send requests or other invitations to have these contacts connect with the lawyer on that
social network, or to invite non-members of the
social network to join it and connect with the lawyer.
As leaked
data from extramarital affair web
site Ashley Madison continues to bubble up like toxic waste, the company is firing off copyright takedown notices to stop file sharing and
social networking sites like Twitter
from propagating customer and internal information.
Facebook is facing scathing criticism following an exposé that
data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica mined a whopping 50 million profiles
from the
social networking site to plan campaigns for 2016 US elections and Brexit referendum.
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report
from Ars Technica: This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the
data Facebook had collected
from him in an archive he had pulled down
from the
social networking site.
An anonymous reader quotes a report
from Ars Technica: This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the
data Facebook had collected
from him in an archive he had pulled down
from the
social networking site.
From the «about us» page at companies you no longer work for to negative news articles and
social network sites with embarrassing photos, the
data track you left during your high - profile career will not only lead recruiters and potential employers to your gate, it may scare them away.