EPISODE · Nov 21, 2022 · 22 MIN
The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History
from Shared Security Podcast · host Tom Eston, Scott Wright
Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon! So what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about it from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts after the $8 "verification" label fiasco, and details about the largest multi-state privacy settlement in the US where Google has agreed to pay $391 million to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. Plus, you don't want to miss Tom's Canadian dad jokes!
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Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon! So what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about it from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts after the $8 "verification" label fiasco, and details about the largest multi-state privacy settlement in the US where Google has agreed to pay $391 million to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. Plus, you don't want to miss Tom's Canadian dad jokes!
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