By Jack Nicas, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel report: Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad. “Signal [Read More…]
I seem to have missed a news announcement on January 7, but if you’re going to give up your privacy for in-game rewards — and that’s not something I would ever recommend — then at least you should be given the rewards you were promised. From the FTC: A California-based [Read More…]
The developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company shared the health information of users with outside data analytics providers after promising that such information would be kept private. The proposed settlement requires Flo Health, Inc. to, [Read More…]
Reuters reports: Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections [Read More…]