A bank customer was tricked into transferring money by fraudsters who pretended to be responding to his angry Twitter post about poor service.
Writer Mike Tinmouth was furious with the process and time taken to open a business account with Barclays.
He expressed his frustration in a public tweet - which was seized on by fraudsters who posed as the bank in an attempt to trick him out of £8,000.
A Children’s Commissioner report into the collection and
sharing of children’s data. November 2018
Data harvesting and sharing by mobile apps is "out of control", University of Oxford researchers have warned.
Nearly 90% of free apps on the Google Play store share data with Google parent company Alphabet, the Financial Times reported.
The app collects GPS coordinates on users even when they're not using it. By sharing that data, both Facebook and Instagram could collect huge amounts of information on users to better target ads.
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