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Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online

31 January 2022

Thousands of tweets every day expose other users’ date of birth, which could help criminals access their private accounts

Pegasus spyware scandal: Can Silicon Valley stop government snooping?

20 July 2021

Spyware sold for use in anti-terror investigations is reportedly being misused by governments to watch journalists and politicians – Silicon Valley firms are battling to end it

Facebook to tell 4 million users their data may have been misused

24 August 2018

Facebook will notify 4 million users of potential data misuse because of the myPersonality project. A New Scientist investigation revealed the scandal earlier this year

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Your social media data is out there, just waiting to be leaked

16 May 2018

So much social media data has been siphoned off and stored in the name of research that questions over its security were only a matter of time, says Paul Marks

Big tech can digitally erase us – do we need new protections?

17 April 2018

In an age when a person's online presence can be quickly removed by technology corporations, there's a case for a new right… to be remembered, says Jamais Cascio

Hoovering up immigrants' social media data won't make US safer

4 October 2017

A plan to grab immigrants' digital profiles in the US is just another case of the misguided idea that mass surveillance is effective, says Ray Corrigan