Facebook commits $10B per year to build the multiverse. Earnest attempt at progress or an attempt to divert attention?
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are deeply integrating into many aspects of daily life for many communities and business. One networking …
On my tech column with CBC Ottawa Morning, Dr. Tracy Valliancourt and I explain the challenges with Instagram Kids and the latest research from …
Twitter’s latest transparency report shows a low uptake for the multi-factor authentication feature. This is a great security control …
Criminals are using real apps they’ve made and a push to remove ads to harvest Facebook credentials in order to gain more personal information …
Apple and Facebook have been battling very publicly around privacy issues. What’s really going on?
Clubhouse is the hot new social network. It’s a promising audio-only network that now boasts over 2 millions active weekly users. During this …
Parler gets deplatformed and can’t find any organizations that want to work with it. It’s about time.
Ad-tech, digital marketing, and the surveillance economy are worth billions and billions of dollars. It all hinges on the ability to target ads and …
Epic Games is current waging war on Apple and Google over the right to distribute apps to mobile users. There’s been a ton of excellent coverage …
On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was hit with the most visible hack of a social network of all time. 130 of the top accounts tweeted out a bitcoin scam. A …
The President has promised to ban TikTok in the United States for national security reasons. Is that the case? Are there real security & privacy …
Is a social network focused on dancing, lip syncing, and fun a threat to national security just because of who owns it? Is TikTok a threat to national …
COPPA was passed in the US in 1998 but a recent ruling against YouTube for violating the decades old law means big changes for creators.
Keeping a personal website up to date is always tricky. The technical pieces are simple, it’s be satisfied with the design and making the …
Facebook was recently called out for listening to users audio messages on Facebook Messenger. They aren’t alone. Apple, Amazon, Google, and …
Facebook held its annual F8 developer conference this week and—in addition to the usual product updates—they repeatedly talked about creating and …
Since May of 2016 Facebook has been prompting some new users for their email passwords. Yes, their email passwords. WTF?
You’re building out a digital identity for you kids almost from the day they are born. But it’s not just you, the clubs they belong to, …
Facebook continues to do anything they can to build data profiles on users. This week it was revealed that they shifted their Onavo efforts to a new …
The 10 Year Challenge is sweeping social media right now. It’s a harmless way of looking back at yourself—and everyone else—a decade …
You can’t really remove something from the internet. Not is the owner/operator really wants it out there. That’s a huge advantage and …
There is a ton of news and information on social networks. There’s also a mountain of garbage. How do you sort through it all? Can you? Do we …
Facebook removes 800+ accounts this week, some with massive followings, for political content. The twist? They were US-based, not foreign. What does …
50 million Facebook accounts were hacked. Facebook responded quickly to the issue but could’ve done better communicating throughout. …
A recent study proved that Facebook uses more information about you than you realize. Behind the scenes, Facebook compiles “shadow …
In the recent dust up with the founders of WhatsApp, you might have heard the term “end-to-end encryption”. What is it? What does it means …
Is that video real? Are you sure? A new technique makes it easier than ever to create passable fake videos of prominent people. You cannot trust your …
Tanacon 1.0 was an unmitigated disaster. Not only is this a reminder that physical security is critical but it’s an example of a failure to …
Facebook wrapped up it’s F8 conference this week with a series of new product announcements. In this episode, we’ll take a look and see …
Facebook is hosting it’s annual F8 conference and it appears that this will be a reserved year. Understandable given the scandals of …
Streaming. It shouldn’t be this hard…
Facebook was called to the carpet and showed well…because they weren’t asked the right questions
Streaming is increasing in popularity but how easy is it to go beyond the basics?
After the long weekend, this episode is a bit of a round up. Nothing big jumping out but a few minor issues to address.
You upload a ton of data to Facebook and in turn, Facebook generates a ton of data about you. I built a tool to take a look at Facebook’s view …
As the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to snowball, we take a look at the larger issues. How does privacy scale? Can it scale under …
Ugh. Facebook Has Allowed A 3rd Party To Harvest Millions of Credentials
