Meta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience

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Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Meta

Tags: facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: X

Tags: Youtube

Tags: TikTok

Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads.

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Meta is using your public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI

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Categories: Personal

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Meta

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: X

Tags: xAI

Tags: copyright

Tags: tweets

Social media companies are showing their hand about scraping user data to feed into their AI and large language models.

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Instagram scam promises money in exchange for your image

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Tags: fake

Tags: muse

Tags: art

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Tags: check

Tags: payment

Tags: fraud

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We take a look at a fake check scam which plugs into the art world.

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Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:19:26 +0000

The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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A week in security (January 16—22)

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Tags: Google

Tags: Rust

Tags: Chromium

Tags: Mailchimp

Tags: SweepWizard

Tags: bossware

Tags: TikTok

Tags: surveillance firm

Tags: Voyager Labs

Tags: TracketPacer

Tags: Facebook

Tags: Instagram

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: Liquor Control Board of Ontario

Tags: Zoho ManageEngine

Tags: GitHub

Tags: LastPass

Tags: Git flaw

Tags: ransomware

Tags: credit card fraud

The most interesting security related news from the week of January 16-22.

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