There were 89,271 data breach notifications in the first year of GDPR being in place, with fines issued totaling €56 million.
G Suite Passwords Stored in Plaintext Since 2005
Google has stored passwords to some G Suite enterprise accounts in plaintext, since 2005, the company has admitted.
Chtrbox Exposes Instagram Influencer Database
Chtrbox, a social media marketing firm based in Mumbai, India, exposed an Instagram influencer database online.
Each record in the database contained a record that calculated the worth of each account, based off the number of followers, engagement, reach, likes and shares they had. This was used as a metric to determine how much the company could pay an Instagram celebrity or influencer to post an ad.
At the time of the writing there were 49 million database records, but was increasing by the hour. The database has since been pulled offline.
Some Instragram Meme Accounts Want to Unionize
Left-wing memes are often very popular on Instagram. They have even made some of the people who share them quite well-off. Now some of those creators want to form a union, according to Vox.
The union, the first major organizing effort for professional meme creators on Instagram, is made up of that latter group, and now has thousands of followers on its official account and an open application process for new members. As Taylor Lorenz notes in the Atlantic, it will probably never be recognized by the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that governs unions, but the organizing drive is still very real: Not only does it use traditional union organizing tactics, but the memers have concrete demands they want Instagram to agree to. And with growing membership, they’ll likely have a bit of leverage.
Ownership of eBooks, Security Updates – TMO Daily Observations 2019-04-19
Andrew Orr and Bryan Chaffin join host Kelly Guimont to discuss “ownership” of eBooks, Instagram’s security, and viewing your tracked data.
Change Your Instagram Password Immediately
In an updated blog post Facebook admitted that it stored Instagram passwords in plaintext, and millions of users are affected.
Jumbo Privacy Assistant Can Manage Your Social Media
Jumbo is a privacy assistant that can manage your social media. It can delete your old tweets, manage your Facebook privacy settings, delete your Google search history, and delete your Alexa voice recordings. Jumbo has no servers, so your data doesn’t leave your iPhone. When it comes to deleting tweets, there are several options to choose from, like tweets from the past day, week, month, and year. Due to Twitter’s API limitations, Jumbo can only clean 3,200 tweets at a time. Instagram and Tinder are coming soon to the app, so you can clean your Instagram photos and videos, and delete Tinder matches and messages. Personally, I also hope support for deleting Reddit posts and comments will come in the future. App Store: Free
Was the Facebook Outage Linked to This Criminal Investigation?
Conspiracy theory time. Yesterday Facebook suffered its biggest outage in its entire history. Other affiliated services like Instagram and WhatsApp were also affected. Facebook is also under a federal criminal investigation over its data sharing practices. Do you think the outage had anything to do with law enforcement seizing some of the company’s servers?
“We are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously,” a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. “We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged that we will continue to do so.”
Out of All Platforms, Child Predators Use Instagram the Most
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) examined grooming cases and found that Instagram was used 32%.
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