Our Biggest Data Breach Discovery of 2019 a massive 800 million emails leaked online. This data breach uncovered how an email verification service uses spam

Firefox gets another new feature from the Tor Uplift project started in 2016.

Le 22-02-2019, le Wall Street Journal publiait un article d’investigation détaillé. On y apprend que de nombreuses applications mobiles traitant des données de santé communiquent lesdites données à Facebook, que vous y soyez connecté·e ou pas. Defensive Lab Agency a été sollicitée pour conduire ces mêmes analyses. Au vu de la faible maturité sur le sujet, nous avons décidé d’expliciter une partie de notre expertise sur le sujet et d’illustrer les conclusions du Wall Street Journal avec quelques éléments techniques.

Coach sportif, date de règles, recherche d’appartement… ces services envoyaient des informations très privées, même si les utilisateurs n’étaient pas sur Facebook.

La mairie de Nice teste actuellement un dispositif de reconnaissance faciale sur son carnaval. Quelles potentialités pour ces technologies dont la généralisation semble approcher ? Quels risques en matière de liberté individuelles ?

Trackography is our open source project which illustrates which companies track us when we read the news online, as well as where our data travels to everytime we access a media website within a period of time.

L’association, qui promeut en France OpenStreetMap, a plusieurs serveurs hébergeant des services et applications liés au projet de cartographie libre. Elle vient de réussir son appel aux dons, avec la somme de...

Facebook, Google, and other masters of the surveillance economy have bred a virulent mutation of capitalism, which explains why they aren’t interested in addressing their many scandals

WSJ reporter Katherine Bindley found that our ability to control Facebook ad tracking is limited and that much of what Facebook claims should come with lengthy footnotes.

Privacy advocates have praised Vermont’s new data broker law, but acknowledge it does little to rein in a largely obscure and unregulated industry.

WhatsApp has announced that it will start sharing your phone number with Facebook. The messaging service has updated its privacy policy to indicate the changes as well as other additions to the platform, such as WhatsApp Web, desktop clients, end-to-end encryption, and voice call service.

Thread by @jeremyburge: "For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and theresable that. Facebook 2FA numbers are also shared with Instagram which prompts you 'is this your phone number? […]"

Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment

Facebook has changed its story after initially trying to downplay how it targeted teens with its Research program that a TechCrunch investigation revealed was paying them gift cards to monitor all their mobile app usage and browser traffic. “Less than 5 percent of the people who chose to part…

Social media giant agreed on Tuesday that location data was ‘one of the factors’ it used but on Wednesday said no, not any more

After a few odd encounters, we decided to get some answers from Facebook.

Facebook has been buying data on its users from third-party providers since 2012 and makes it pretty hard to opt out.

Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s …

"People You May Know" is both helpful and terrifying as hell.