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Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids — The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal kids …
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Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017 — Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics — Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? — When we use browsers to make medical appointments … | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Tinder is testing letting users pay it directly in its Android app, bypassing the Play Store and avoiding Google's 30% cut — - Match Group, Netflix and Spotify side-stepping to avoid costs — More tech companies are likely to follow suit, analyst says| BBC: |
London Met Police blames a breach of news distributor MyNewsDesk for bizarre messages appearing on its website, Twitter account, and in emails to subscribers — The Metropolitan Police's website has been hit by hackers who posted a series of bizarre messages.
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How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019 — Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake?| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore — Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram.
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Sources: NSO Group claims it can read authentication tokens on phones infected with its spyware to access victims' data on iCloud and other cloud services — The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data …
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| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
The app Who's in Town shows how much sensitive location data users unwittingly share on Instagram and how much the aggregated data reveals — By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who's in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a Instagram account.| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Former NSA contractor Harold Martin sentenced to nine years in prison for the theft of 50TB+ of classified government files — Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin was sentenced Friday to 9 years in prison for his role in a massive theft of classified documents.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Department of Education: hackers breached an ERP system of 62 colleges, created student accounts, and used them “almost immediately for criminal activity” — Hackers are breaching college networks and creating fake accounts that are used “almost immediately for criminal activity.”| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Medallia, a customer experience management platform, closes up 76% on its first day trading, after raising $326M at a valuation of $2.5B in its IPO — Customer experience management platform Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) rose up more than 70% in its New York Stock Exchange debut Friday.
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