Data Brokers and National Security
Sen. Ron Wyden speaks a town hall in 2017. (Joe Frasier, https://flickr.com/photos/146781514@N05/33115710686; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)
In the worlds of data protection and privacy, too often there is a decoupling of national security issues and what might be termed non-national security issues despite the clear interplay between the two realms. Over the past decade, U.S. adversaries have vacuumed up the personal data of many Americans with one nation possibly being at the fore: the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The PRC was connected to the Office of Personnel Management and Equifax hacks, both of which provided massive troves of data the PRC has reportedly used to foil U.S. espionage and intelligence collection efforts abroad. What’s more, the collection of personal data did not stop with these hacks. In September 2020, an Australian security firm turned up evidence of an enormous trove of personal da
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Study: Social Media Easily Manipulated
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New research shows that social media companies differ in their ability to stop social media manipulation.
The NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence carried out the study. Two American senators took part.
Researchers from the center, based in Riga, Latvia, paid three Russian companies for
fake social media
engagement. For around $368, researchers got 337,768 fake likes, views and shares of posts on social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
Some of those fake likes, views, and shares appeared on the verified accounts of Senators Chuck Grassley and Chris Murphy. Verified accounts are those that social media companies have confirmed as owned and controlled by the individual or group named on the account.
Report: Social media conversations of verified accounts easily manipulated
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Dec. 22 (UPI) A new report by a NATO-accredited organization has found that despite efforts by social media companies to stymie inauthentic behavior, the conversations surrounding the verified accounts of two U.S. senators were easily manipulated on their platforms for the cost of a few dollars.
Published Monday, the report by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence set out to test the ability of social media companies to identify and remove inauthentic behavior, finding that despite some variance between five key platforms none is doing enough to prevent the manipulation of their services.