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LinkedIn responds quickly to complaints about ‘social ads’

12
Aug
2011

Yesterday, I wrote about LinkedIn’s recent Privacy Policy changes, by means of which the company snuck in the right to use your name and photo in adverts placed by third parties. You weren’t offered the choice to enable this new feature at will, because it was turned on by default for everyone. And LinkedIn didn’t […]

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Compromised Twitter accounts spam out money-making adverts

01
Aug
2011

Compromised Twitter accounts are once again being used by criminals to spam out adverts to unsuspecting users. In the latest attack, Direct Messages (DMs) have been sent between Twitter users promoting a “make money fast” website. A typical message looks like this: I made $XXX today – check out how I made it [LINK] (In […]

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