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Privacy Tip #248 – Social Media Data Leak Exposes Millions of User Profiles

By Linn Foster Freedman on August 20, 2020 Posted in Privacy Tips

If you use social media frequently, especially TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, you may want to take note of a recent report by a security research team at Comparitech that an unsecured database has exposed 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube user profiles. The exposed information may have included profile names, real names, profile photos, and … Continue Reading

Tech Company Execs Sweat Personal Liability for Privacy Violations

By Linn Foster Freedman on May 16, 2019 Posted in New + Now

In the Privacy Law classes I teach in the Brown University Executive Masters of Cybersecurity and at Roger Williams University School of Law, we discuss the enforcement authority that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and other federal and state agencies have over data privacy and security, including how effective … Continue Reading

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