Muslim civil rights leaders expressed anger at Facebook for removing posts that sought to highlight and counter hateful rhetoric and threats. In multiple instances, Muslim civil rights leaders had their posts removed and accounts suspended for posting about... +Read more
Equifax was hammered on multiple fronts after its lax security practices led to a “hacking nightmare” made worse by its badly bungled response. The massive data breach, which revealed the... +Read more
The exercise-tracking app Strava faced a barrage of criticism after a researcher discovered that the company's Heat Map feature - which displayed aggregated exercise data on a map - revealed sensitive user activity, including the potential locations of... +Read more
Facebook was thrown into full-blown crisis after reports that Cambridge Analytica, a shadowy voter-profiling company, used information from tens of millions of Facebook users’ profiles as... +Read more
The dating app Grindr found itself embroiled in controversy after reports that the app was sharing user’s HIV status with third parties. At issue was that Grindr users may not have been adequately informed that sensitive health information was being shared with third-party service providers. Given the risk of... +Read more
Venmo experienced a privacy emergency and onslaught of bad press when a researcher released an interactive website exposing the private details revealed by Venmo’s “public by... +Read more
Apple has been lauded for its privacy friendly update to the iOS App store rules to prohibit developers from building a contact database (something... +Read more
Photo app Everalbum used billions of private, user-uploaded images to train “Ever AI,” a facial recognition product that it marketed to private clients, law enforcement, and the military. The company did all this without obtaining consent from users, and without even telling its millions of users that their personal photos would be used to help... +Read more
Clearview AI constructed a surveillance database from “more than three billion images . . . scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites” without the consent or knowledge of the people whose faces appear in the images. A... +Read more
An April 2021 software update for iOS, which runs on Apple mobile phones and tablets, requires apps to get explicit consent before tracking user activity and sharing that personal information with third parties. The update , in iOS 14.5, gives users more control over their personal... +Read more
Muslim Pro, a prayer app that has been downloaded 98 million times, came under fire for sharing location data with a company called X-Mode, which sells data to clients including defense contractors, “ and by extension, the [U.S.] military .” A Motherboard... +Read more
Failing once again to protect its users’ personal information, Facebook was subject to a breach that exposed the “personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries … [including] their phone numbers... +Read more