InfoSec News Nuggets 04/22/2021

1 - Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’ An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has revealed the firm's intentions to frame a recent data scraping incident as "normalized" and a "broad industry issue." Facebook has recently been at the center of a data scraping controversy. Earlier this month, Hudson Rock researchers revealed that information belonging to roughly 533 million users had been posted online, including phone numbers, Facebook…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 10/19/2020

Minneapolis Will Consider Facial Recognition Ban A Minneapolis City Council member filed a motion that could result in a citywide ban on law enforcement use of facial recognition technology. If successful, the motion, which was filed on October 2 and will be officially introduced Friday, could signal a wave of reforms over the use of military and surveillance equipment following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. As calls to defund and disband police forces reverberate…
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