It knows when you've been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you've been lurking on your ex's profile. Meta's new social media platform Threads is gobbling up massive amounts of sensitive data on its 100 million users and counting.
It knows when you've been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you've been lurking on your ex's profile.
"This is a hacker's dream," said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees. It also keeps tabs on what you're doing on your device, like whether the app is in the foreground or if your mouse is moving, messages you send and receive and details on purchases you make, including credit card information.
That approach is not unusual for social media services or other apps. It's become "standard repertoire" for such companies to broker access to as much data as possible, he said. Caraway often hears from students who wonder why they should care if social media companies access their data because they're not high-profile and don't use such apps for controversial activities."We're certainly seeing a situation in the U.S. where certain marginalized populations are under attack, at least rhetorically and sometimes legally, and you might find yourself as part of one of those marginalized populations.
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