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Data Dive, Glitches, Bounces And Scrapes Edition: Target, Bitcoin And Venmo

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JUNE 24, 2019

The move comes a year after privacy researcher Hang Do Thi Duc downloaded 207 million Venmo transactions to prove a similar point. There’s truly no reason to have this API open to unauthenticated requests,” Salmon told reporters. PayPal did not return a request for comment on this latest report.

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Advocacy Groups Call On FTC To Break Up Facebook

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The FTC is about to complete an investigation into the data breach and whether Facebook violated a consent decree reached in 2011 and could levy Facebook with a sizeable fine, reported The Wall Street Journal. In 2011 the FTC said Facebook deceived customers by sharing data it said it was kept private.

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Data Dive, Glitches, Bounces And Scrapes Edition: Target, Bitcoin And Venmo

Advocacy Groups Call On FTC To Break Up Facebook

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