The wildly popular music-streaming platform Spotify has grown to over 75 million subscribers, and many fans are complaining about Spotify’s invasive privacy policy. In their article about Spotify’s invasive privacy policy, David Goldman and Hope King of CNN Tech describe how Spotify discreetly tracks locations, collects photos, views contacts, and shares the personal data of its…
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CNN reported this month over 1.2 billion passwords were stolen by a group of Russian cyber criminals in the biggest personal data breach to date. This most recent massive personal data breach is unique because hackers chose to steal password information instead of financial information. Additionally, approximately 110 million Target customers’ data was compromised late last year. Companies…
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Your credit score is a powerful tool that businesses use to measure your creditworthiness. However, big data could be ranking you on more than just your credit. Your credit score is based upon credit history and your ability to pay back debt and loans. Companies use credit scores to determine if you are financially responsible…
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With Instagram’s recent acquisition by Facebook, there have been some changes to the privacy policy that may including trying to sell your photos. Many users feared this acquisition would bring up the same issues with the privacy policy, as there have been with Facebook. Recently, Instagram made updates to the interface and privacy policy. The…
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