Chinese regulators issued rules to app developers on Monday spelling out what counts as non-consensual personal data collection. Why it matters: The rules…
Security Researcher discovered a leak within the dating app Plenty of Fish of the data that users had specially set as “private” on their profiles. The leaked…
Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated…
More than 267 million Facebook users’ IDs, phone numbers, and names were exposed to an online database that could potentially be used for spam and phishing…
Instagram is to warn its users when they are using language in their captions that may be perceived as offensive or bullying. The social media company said it…
Following its efforts to take legal action against those misusing its social media platform, Facebook has now filed a new lawsuit against a Hong Kong-based…
If your Firefox or Chrome browser has any of the below-listed four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG installed, you should disable or remove…
Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of ‘Data Transfer Project,’ an initiative the company…
Adobe detected a security breach last week, which it traced back to a vulnerability in the Magento Marketplace. Adobe has warned users about a security breach…
Twitter is warning inactive users to log back into their accounts or risk losing access. The company is going to embark on an account purge. On the plus side,…