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Over 400M Facebook Users’ Records Exposed Online
Facebook // September 04, 2019

A security researcher has found an exposed server containing hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 4). Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member of the GDI Foundation, found the database with more than 419 million records over...

India Rules IDs Can’t Be Linked To Social Accounts
International // August 23, 2019

An Indian court has ruled that people in the country can’t link Aadhaar (unique identification) or any other government-issued identification with their social media accounts, according to reports.  One Justice in India named S. Manikumar said that doing so would violate a Supreme Court ruling...

The Summer Of Love (Or Not) Edition: CapOne & IDs, Android Pay & PayPal And...
Data Dive // May 22, 2017

The summer is here! Okay, the summer is almost here. Just one week more and Memorial Day is upon us, and with it summer’s unofficial beginning. Given the bang — or, more accurately, series of bangs — 2017 has gotten off to in its first half, it...

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The Summer Of Love (Or Not) Edition: CapOne & IDs, Android Pay & PayPal And Walgreens & (Maybe Not) Rite Aid

May 22, 2017
The summer is here! Okay, the summer is almost here. Just one week more and Memorial Day is upon us, and with it summer’s unofficial beginning. Given the bang — or, more accurately, series of bangs — 2017 has gotten off to in its first half, it is easy to imagine some — if not all — of us […]

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Over 400M Facebook Users’ Records Exposed Online

September 04, 2019
A security researcher has found an exposed server containing hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 4). Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member of the GDI Foundation, found the database with more than 419 million records over several databases, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, […]

India Rules IDs Can’t Be Linked To Social Accounts

August 23, 2019
An Indian court has ruled that people in the country can’t link Aadhaar (unique identification) or any other government-issued identification with their social media accounts, according to reports.  One Justice...