The FBI released the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2017 Internet Crime Report earlier this month. IC3 was created to support Internet crime complaints and has received over 4,000,000 complaints… Read more 2017 Internet Crime Report →
Facebook continues to be in the news with more user privacy concerns. This time, Android users have discovered that Facebook has detailed information about their call history, including names, phone numbers, and the length of each call made or received. That’s a lot of personal information! Facebook responded to these claims, stating that none of this call metadata is collected without the user’s permission. And this is true, sort of. Due to the way Android handled permissions in the past, these permissions were given without explicit notification to the user.… Read more Trade-offs in Privacy and Social Networks →
The U.S. faces hundreds of thousands of cyber attacks every day. It was recently reported that Russian government hackers have successfully infiltrated U.S. government infrastructure including nuclear facilities. U.S. power… Read more National Cyber Attacks in the News →
Recent news stories have us thinking about our online privacy. In March, it was widely reported that Facebook user data was used without permission by Cambridge Analytica, a data consultancy… Read more Revisiting Social Media Privacy →
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