In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move users' iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance. Now, according to a deep-dive report from The New York Times, Apple's privacy and security … [Read more...] about How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps
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You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads
After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today.Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor authentication (2FA) protection had been used for targeted advertising … [Read more...] about You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads