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Meta Sues Surveillance Software Firm for Scraping 600,000 Profiles

Tech News / By Daniel O Keeffe / January 17, 2023

Meta is suing the London-based surveillance firm Voyager Labs for using surveillance software that illegally scraped data from 600,000 user profiles on its subsidiary platforms. Scraped information, including likes, comments, friends, and photos were sold to law enforcement agencies. Discover how you can protect yourself against data scraping incidents.

PRISM and privacy: Ways to avoid being spied on by the government

Articles, Compliance & Privacy, Cybersecurity / By Ali Qamar / October 21, 2020

The NSA’s PRISM program can be a blank check for the government to see everything you do online. But there are ways to ensure your privacy.

New Mexico sues Google for violating privacy of minors

Compliance & Privacy, Cybersecurity, Tech News / By Derek Kortepeter / February 27, 2020

New Mexico is suing Google for alleged privacy violations against minors, specifically that it uses its Google Education program to mine children’s data.

Yahoo has thrown it all away

Compliance & Privacy, Tech News / By John Casaretto / November 3, 2016

The steady decline of Yahoo from having it all to has-been is only going to get worse in light of a new allegation it let the U.S. government spy on its users.