A «whistleblower» named Sandy Parakilas, who was a product manager at Facebook in 2011 and
policed data breaches on the platform, testified before members of the British Parliament on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, The Guardian published an interview with Sandy Parakilas, a «platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for
policing data breaches by third - party software developers between 2011 and 2012.»
Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee whose job used to entail
policing data breaches by third - party developers, said the spread of ill - gotten user information was rampant.
Sandy Parakilas was responsible for
policing data breaches by third - party software developers during 2011 - 12.
Not exact matches
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has been known to
police itself since its inception, but in the wake of ongoing
data breach scandal, the social media giant has decided to cut user some slack.
Police arrested a 15 - year - old boy over a cyber attack on telephone and internet provider TalkTalk, feared to have
breached the
data of millions of Britons, Scotland Yard said on Monday.
Rob's
data security and information privacy practice focuses on advising and working with companies to develop written plans, improve security - related
polices, support compliance training, and respond to potential security
breaches.
Since joining chambers, he has worked on unlawful detention claims, claims against the
police and claims involving
breaches of confidentiality, privacy and
data protection.
The company has been working to notify affected users and is expected to work with the
police and
data security firms to try and trace the source of the
breach.
In related news, Facebook could be facing possible criminal sanctions in Indonesia as
police in that country investigate if it
breached privacy laws by allowing
data of Indonesian users to be improperly shared.
It seems that
Police department of South Korea is staying quite active to immediately ground any such attacks especially after the noteworthy
breach and hack of Bithumb wherein personal
data of nearly 31000 people was said to be leaked alleging a theft worth «hundreds of millions of won».
JAKARTA (Reuters)-- Indonesia's communication ministry said it has asked Facebook Inc to confirm whether personal
data from any of its citizens was shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica and is coordinating with
police in case any laws were
breached.