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Facebook, which is finishing up a year marred by user data scandals, says a “bug” allowed third-party apps to access up to 6.8 million users’ unposted photos for 12 days in September. From September 13 to September 25, a bug in the photo interface gave apps access to photos of users not just on their timelines but in…

In a year that saw a massive security breach that exposed the personal information of millions of users, and press revelations that threw shade on how its executives responded to foreign interference on its platform, Facebook offered a surprisingly sunny appraisal of 2018 in its year in review. Research manager Sheida…

As the holiday shopping season kicks into gear, Amazon has disclosed to select customers that their names and email addresses were “inadvertently disclosed” due to a “technical error.” According to numerous posts circulating on social media, the company offered scant detail and context for the disclosure. There were…