Sharing with you this recent post <https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-only-trusts-elon> on Platformer, detailing how Elon Musk ignored the privacy risk findings and recommendations made by Twitter's Trust and Safety Team on the revamped Twitter Blue. Anyone who has worked in the Privacy and Information Security space will find the story familiar: Business is itching to launch ASAP but you see a number of privacy and security red flags. A tug-of-war ensues on who should prevai

Quite disappointing to find out that Apple, a company that actively markets itself as a user privacy-protecting business, is not immune to the temptations of user data collection. Apple is the subject of a class action lawsuit for its mobile tracking activities. This report <https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/apple-hit-with-class-action-over-tracking-of-mobile-app-activity> explains that it is not really the fact of the user tracking that has these complainants up in a

A hospital embedded Facebook's pixel tool in its website and is requiring patients to use their Facebook accounts as sign-in credential to access the hospital's patient management system. Now two patients have sued, claiming that this is tantamount to unauthorized sharing of their patient information with Facebook. More here: https://medcitynews.com/2022/11/did-duke-health-violate-privacy-by-sharing-patient-data-with-faceboo