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Associations urge Zuckerberg to scrap ‘Instagram for kids’ project 20-04-2021
According to the organisations behind the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a number of studies demonstrate that the excessive use of digital devices and social media is linked to a number of risks for children and adolescents, including obesity, reduced psychological well-being, increased risk of depression and increased suicide outcomes . [Shutterstock/Ink Drop]
GDPR, PIPL and CCPA
PIPL”), the draft of a set of rules aimed at regulating privacy law.
PIPL is meant to complete China’s regulatory framework on privacy, which was launched with the 2016 Cybersecurity Law. China, like other major world powers, is fully aware that “information is power” and to be up to date as situations develop, means for them to be able not only to react quickly but also to control the nature of the information.
PIPL looks like a “little sister” to EU Regulation 2016/679 (“
GDPR”). Is it perhaps that China ran for cover after the Schrems II ruling? The EU court’s decision, in fact, is not only of concern for its immediate effects on data flows to the United States, but also for its repercussions in other third countries too, such as China. In order to assess whether China is a country with sufficient guarantees of adequacy (i.e. with an essentially equivalent level of protection of personal data to that guaranteed within the EU), market playe
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Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.
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This story was originally broken earlier this week by Cyber News, whose staff discovered the huge, illicit cache in the course of online research. LinkedIn has denied that its systems were breached. The data, which is reportedlybeing sold on a popular underground forum, is said to include LinkedIn IDs, full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and genders, as well as links to the profiles and other associated social media profiles. It does not appear to include account credentials or financial information.
A report from
Cyber News earlier this week revealed the existence of a massive store of LinkedIn user data that is apparently being sold through an unnamed online forum. The original post seeks to sell an archive of 500 million users and offers a cache of 2 million profiles as proof.
The person claiming ownership of the data store is asking a four-digit $$$$ minimum price for access to the full archive, but is selling samples for as little as $2 in forum credits,
Cyber News reports.
Gizmodo on Wednesday. While we re still investigating this issue, the posted dataset appears to include publicly viewable information that was scraped from LinkedIn combined with data aggregated from other websites or companies, a spokesperson said. Scraping our members data from LinkedIn violates our terms of service and we are constantly working to protect our members and their data.