LinkedIn Intro Service to Shut Down March 7

LinkedIn announced on Friday it was shuttering its four-month-old Intro service which stirred up a privacy meltdown shortly after its release in October. Intro was an integrated service for iOS which sat as a proxy between the built-in iOS mail client and the user’s email provider. Intro would...

Alessandro Acquisti Discussed Facebook Research

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Alessandro Acquisti spoke at Black Hat on the “Faces of Facebook,” in which he discussed research showing how facial recognition software can be used to unite disparate silos of public and private data online, creating a comprehensive, Minority Report-style...