Security News This Week: Taylor Swift's Facial Recognition Scans Crowds for Stalkers
Security News This Week: Taylor Swift's Facial Recognition Scans Crowds for Stalkers
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 17, 20184m 27s
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Show Notes
If you thought you were going to make it out of 2018 without a couple more data slip-ups, think again! Two incidents bookended the week. Monday, Google revealed that a bug in its somehow still alive Google+ social network exposed the data of 52.5 million users. That's orders of magnitude bigger than the 500,000 users that were impacted by a previous Google+ exposure. And on Friday, Facebook announced that it had exposed photos of up to 6.8 million users for nearly two weeks in September.
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