Facebook is Going To Start Dating Service: Secret Crush

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Facebook announced at its F8 conference today a new feature to its Dating repertoire, this one apparently designed to help single minglers poach potential paramours from their Friends by adding them to an ostensibly private list of people you’re crushing on.<br />
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Here’s how this is supposed to go down: You add up to <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/f8-2019-day-1/">nine people</a> to a “Secret Crush” list. After you do, those nine people will receive an alert telling them someone has a crush on them. They can add their own secret crushes, and if they add you, you both get a notification and can chat about it on Messenger.<br />
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Ordinarily, Facebook basic and Facebook Dating exist in two separate realms — your profile for one is not the same as your profile for another. The Secret Crush feature is the first crossover between the two (pray it’s the only one). On paper, it sounds like it might be a nice gesture, leaving an opening for shy or introverted people to express their interest in someone with no embarrassment or repercussions if the interest isn’t reciprocated.<br />
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Supposedly, no one will know who your crushes are unless the two of your connect, but you just know there’s a way around that. I wouldn’t put it past some users to add and remove all of their Friends to their own Secret Crush list just to see if any of them match up — not because they feel the same way, but just for bragging rights. But that’s not what really concerns me.<br />
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If you’re anything like me and have played audience to Facebook’s massive, trust-annihilating data leaks and generally cavalier attitude towards consumer data, then your gut clenched in a pre-emptive cringe at the privacy conundrum this is sure to cause. After a year of data privacy scandals, <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/cambridge%20analytica">Cambridge Analytica</a> chief among them, I don’t think I’d trust Facebook with my dating interests in general, let alone a super secret list of the acquaintances I secretly long to be closer to.</div>

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Source Code of Tools used by Cambridge Analytica to hijack Facebook accounts leaked

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AggregateIQ – a Canadian political advertising firm that played a role in the 2016 <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/US%20Elections">US election</a> and the UK's "Vote Leave" Brexit campaign – left its applications and database credentials publicly accessible, security firm Upguard <a href="https://www.upguard.com/breaches/aggregate-iq-part-one">said </a>on Monday.<br />
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There's no evidence that the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Data%20Leak">exposed code</a> or data was taken. Nor is there evidence it wasn't. It was simply left accessible to the public for an unspecified period of time.<br />
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In a phone interview,  Chris Vickery, Upguard's director of cyber risk research, said AggregateIQ had installed a custom version of the open source <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/GitLab">GitLab </a>software version control and collaboration system.<br />
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"For whatever reason, they configured it to allow registration of new accounts by the public," he said.<br />
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About a week ago, on March 20, Vickery found the code repo, hosted on a GitLab subdomain of AggregateIQ.com, <a href="http://gitlab.aggregateiq.com/">gitlab.aggregateiq.com</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AggregateIQ GitLab Repository</td></tr>
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Accessing the URL allowed him to register simply by providing an email address. After that, he was able to see the firm's tools and data.<br />
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Vickery said he informed federal authorities of his findings but declined to name the specific agency, per the agency's request. He also said he informed AggregateIQ, and the biz shut down access 11 minutes later.<br />
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Upguard suggests the material found – apparently used to support US Senator Ted Cruz's failed 2016 presidential campaign – raises questions about the firm's alleged ties to Cambridge Analytica, which <b>received $5.8 million for services rendered from the Cruz campaign</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">US Senator Ted Cruz's VoiceMail Script: Ripon_canvas</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/cambridge%20analytica">Cambridge Analytica</a>, a UK-based data analytics firm, stands at the center of the current Facebook privacy scandal, a consequence of the biz obtaining about 50 million Facebook profiles from a researcher who took advantage of the social media site's former policy of letting app devs gather info on app users and all of their friends.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/aggregateiq">AggregateIQ </a>has been linked to Cambridge Analytica in press reports; Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix (currently suspended after undercover video of him discussing his company's tactics) has acknowledged using AggregateIQ in the past to develop software applications.<br />
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A Guardian/Observer report from May 2017 alleges that Wylie, the whistleblower who helped bring the Facebook data scandal to the fore, brought AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica together.<br />
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Read More About: <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/03/facebook-data-breach.html">Facebook Data Leak</a><br />
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The report asserts that at one point, AggregateIQ’s address and phone number were the same as the address and phone listed for SCL Canada on Cambridge Analytica’s website.<br />
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On Saturday, AggregateIQ issued a statement to distance itself from Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL and to assert that it has never knowingly been involved in illegal activity.<br />
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"AggregateIQ has never been and is not a part of Cambridge Analytica or SCL," the Canadian company said. "Aggregate IQ has never entered into a contract with Cambridge Analytica. Chris Wylie has never been employed by AggregateIQ."<br />
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Vickery expressed skepticism about AggregateIQ's disavowal of ties to Cambridge Analytica.<br />
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I find it hard to believe that there would be such a non-relationship as they describe," he said. "I've seen compelling evidence the to contrary.</blockquote>
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Upguard says it discovered "a set of sophisticated applications, data management programs, advertising trackers, and information databases that collectively could be used to target and influence individuals through a variety of methods, including automated phone calls, emails, political websites, volunteer canvassing, and Facebook ads."<br />
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The security biz also said it found various credentials, keys, hashes, usernames, and passwords to access AggregateIQ accounts, which would allow hackers who obtained the information to compromise accounts. Vickery clarified that the databases were not directly exposed.<br />
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These are the tools used to interact with the data," he said. "These aren't the databases themselves.</blockquote>
The credentials to access the databases through these tools were available but he said he did not use them – using someone else's credentials to login without authorization carries a potential legal risk.<br />
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But, said Vickery, there's mention of the Republican National Committee and a significant data store. Upguard's post contains a screenshot of an application described at the Database of Truth that combines RNC data with state voter files, consumer data, third party data providers, and other sources of information. In theory, that database could contain information on millions of US voters.<br />
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Vickery said he is considering further posts about his findings but has yet to determine the details.<br />
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Asked whether it is aware of Upguard's findings, a spokesperson for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada sent in the following statement:<br />
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What we can tell you at this point is that we have been in contact with our provincial counterpart in British Columbia, which has been examining matters related to AggregateIQ and our discussions with them are ongoing. We don’t have further information to share at this time.</blockquote>
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Source Code of Tools used by Cambridge Analytica to hijack Facebook accounts leaked

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50 Million Facebook Accounts Hijacked to help Trump Win

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50 million Facebook accounts, most of them in the United States, had their data harvested in 2014 by a company looking for ways to target people with political messages. Facebook has denied this was a data breach.<br />
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A whistleblower named Christopher Wylie, who used to work at a company called Cambridge Analytica, gave a dossier of evidence including “emails, invoices, contracts and bank transfers” told to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election">Observer</a>.<br />
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Cambridge Analytica data breach Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says, "We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of profiles. And built models to exploit that and target their inner demons."</blockquote>
A company called Global Science Research (GSR) run by Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan created an app called <b>thisisyourdigitallife </b>– a personality test people can fill out online. He worked with Cambridge Analytica which was looking for ways to influence what people think about politics. A contract was signed between GSR and a Cambridge Analytica affiliate called SCL Elections Ltd. When people filled out the personality test, they gave permission for the app to collect their Facebook data “for academic use”. However, the app also collected the data of all of the user’s Facebook friends, quickly inflating the number of people affected to the tens of millions.<br />
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The data from 50 million Facebook profiles were looked at against the electoral register, and then used to build an algorithm which analyses people’s personality traits in relation to their voting behaviour. This could then be used to find potential swing voters and create messages tailored to influence them politically. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica is being investigated by the Electoral Commission for its possible role in the EU referendum and by the Information Comissioner’s Office over using data analytics for political purposes. The firm is also being investigated in the United States by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director who is investigating possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s election campaign. Wylie has also passed on his dossier of evidence to the National Crime Agency’s <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime">cybercrime </a>unit and the Information Commissioner’s Office. <br />
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On Friday, just before the story broke, Facebook announced it was suspending Cambridge Analytica and GSR’s Aleksandr Kogan from Facebook while it carries out an investigation into “misuse of data”. It has also suspended whistleblower Christopher Wylie from using Facebook. Facebook denies this was a data breach, as GSR got the data “in a legitimate way” but it broke Facebook rules by passing the data on to third parties. Facebook also claims it removed the app in 2015 and written proof that all data had been destroyed. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica’s vice president at the time was Steve Bannon, who was also head of the right-wing website Breitbart and was running Donald Trump’s campaign to become US President. Bannon later became President Trump’s chief of staff, but was fired last year. Cambridge Analytica was funded by Robert Mercer, a hedge fund billionaire and Trump’s biggest campaign donor. GSR’s Aleksandr Kogan is also an associate professor at St Petersburg State University in Russia and has received grants from the Russian government to research Facebook users’ emotional states. <br />
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Cambridge Analytica told the Observer its contract with GSR said Kogan must seek “informed consent” for data collection. It’s affiliate SCL Elections worked with Facebook to make sure no terms had been “knowingly breached” and was given a signed statement that all data had been deleted. Cambridge Analytica also claims none of the data was used in the 2016 US presidential election.<br />
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50 Million Facebook Accounts Hijacked to help Trump Win

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