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| | | Google Pulls Selfie App With Over 50 Million Downloads for Secretly Clicking Ads | | Gizmodo | Six apps have reportedly been removed from the Google Play Store after a BuzzFeed investigation found that they were involved in ad fraud. The apps, which were all tied to Chinese app developer DU Group, were fraudulently clicking on ads and didn’t disclose to users that they were sending their data to China. | | Facebook Asked Some Users for Their Email Passwords, Then 'Unintentionally Uploaded' 1.5 Million Contact Lists Without Consent | | Gizmodo | Earlier this month, Facebook admitted that it was asking some users who signed up on desktop while using email addresses not supporting the OAuth open standard to give them the passwords to their email accounts—with options to avoid doing so hidden in a “Need Help?” sub-menu. Now the social media giant has admitted that yes, it did “unintentionally” upload contact lists from up to 1.5 million of those email accounts to Facebook, without their owners’ consent or knowledge. | | Surprising Absolutely No One at All, Samsung's Folding-Screen Phones Knackered Within Days | | The Register | Samsung’s space-age Galaxy Fold smartphones, which you can fold in half to pop in your pocket, are cracking up after just a few days of use. | | Cloud Security Spending Set to Top $12Bn by 2023 | | Infosecurity | Global spending on cloud security is set to grow nearly 18% to reach $12.7bn by 2023, with protection for public cloud deployments prioritized over the coming years, according to a new report from Forrester. |
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