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February 19, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Facebookery, Illicit Data Use, Information Security, Crime, Criminal Enterprise

via Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica, in which, the Good Mr. Brodkin details the United Kingdom's House of Commons excoriating report on the antics of Facebook, Inc. (NYSE: FB) and it's 'bad boy' CEO Mark 'Sweaty' Zuckerberg. Enjoy the report...

February 19, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Facebookery, Illicit Data Use, Information Security, Crime, Criminal Enterprise

City of Los Angeles Files Suit Targeting Illicit Data Use By Weather Channel App

January 05, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Law, Law Enforcement, Illicit Data Use

News, via The New York Times reporters Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Natasha Singer, of a newly filed suit targeting deceptive utilization of user location data by The Weather Channel's phone app. The Weather Channel is an International Business Machines {IBM} {NYSE: IBM} subsidiary). Oops...; and, then there's this.

January 05, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Law, Law Enforcement, Illicit Data Use