Twitter and TikTok’s data privacy controversies show the dangers of third-party apps

Image credit: Vertigo3d // Getty Images. Article by Tim Keary. Venture Beat – August 31, 2022. 

The month of August was devastating for consumer and enterprise confidence in big tech and social media giants. Researchers discovered that TikTok uses keystroke tracking [subscription required] to track every character a user types in its in-app browser. Though the company claimed it uses this for troubleshooting. Separately, a whistleblower, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, has alleged that the organization misled its own board, as well as government regulators, about security vulnerabilities. […]

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