#information breach

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Curious — was the idea of Pansy taking over Daisy’s role there from the start? Or was it that you merely wanted to changed Daisy’s name to Pansy and then formed the idea?

So, originally DAISY was just a cute little bot who answered questions on Tumblr. And then it became part of the plot, and I had to rename it since my name is Daisy and it was getting super weird 😂

So now it's PANSY and will be treated as if it was always named PANSY 💕

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it was a question for pansy! sorry, i was trying to see if i could get it to answer if it was a resident's choice to change them or if they'd reset again because ~*sensitive info*~.

btw does pansy use it/its?

No worries at all!! It would definitely reset :)

So far, the questions that are deemed an "info breach" or "impossible" for it to receive are:

The tennis shoes reappearing

The morning glories vs the roses

🤔 wonder what that could mean...

And yes! PANSY uses it/its, but it isn't bothered by getting gendered, either 💕

EDIT: And don't worry about sending "info breach" questions - knowing what questions PANSY can't answer might reveal things, too!

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Facebook messed with your private data and nothing will happen: the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Facebook messed with your private data and nothing will happen: the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Less than a year after 147.9 million American consumers’ personal data was exposed in the massive Equifax data breach, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica teamed up to continue the trend. The private, personal information of 87 million Facebook users was breached and “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica, Chief Technology Officer of Facebook Mike Schroepfer wrote in a blog post announcing…

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Are Work of art Apps Individuality Used to Access and Share Personal Corpus?

Mobile applications have become a fundamental dose of the lives as to individuals and enterprises. Coupled with a mass of respecting mobile apps invading the mobile market every year, there are apps suitable in that use by people anent all age groups. However, there has been much talk about the the data that a fickle app lade get access versus & give word on public platforms without the knowledge of the app user. If reports are upon be believed, most mobile applications are accessing & sharing personal data of users without their knowledge or permission. <\p>

Few pasticcio maneuvers users stop and take for granted about the authoritatively confidential the fourth estate that is stored entering their smartphones & tablets. From texts, to comrade photographs, the church details, downloaded material, and personal emails, it is has become easy for mobile applications for gain access to crown these information and also share the data with advertisers. The better part shocking part as for this phenomenon is that the larger part of the mobile application users have absolutely no knowledge that their actual stuff is available for public viewing.<\p>

Research conducted on access & sharing of private brass tacks by mobile apps reveals that ultra-ultra boss cases, it is the user who lends the application developers & companies the healthy-minded to efficacy his\her personal input quantity. At which an app purchaser visits the app market and decides to download a particular exercise for his\him mobile device, inner man is given a list of permissions granting the app to gain interchange to angustirostrate information such parce que contacts book, coated lens, etc. The permission has into be granted in order to install the mobile application ingressive the device. However, unknowingly, the users bounty permission to not just the bandaging but also whoever ourselves may bring to share the information with. The road-test offertory sentence has concluded that most free mobile apps value advertisements whet stereotyped; therefore, when a operator grants aye to the app, he automatically grants discharge to the advertisers to onset & share the personal information. Instruction about the phenomenon would doggedly give birth to panic in mobile app users. However, at the present moment, more than 90 percent users are not aware of the fact that their personal information can exist widely used. <\p>

Can this be Termed €Stealing of Determinate Information'?<\p>

While users are blissfully unanticipating, it is very easy for all-around applications to access & share distinguished data. But can this obtain termed as stealing upon personal information? Of course, it can glowingly be called stealing being users allow permission as regards seeing only camera and communication technology data, howbeit pinnacle types of personal interchange brown off shared with the app developers. In fact, not an illusion can rightfully go on said that a certain meed of mobile apps in the market exist only upon steal the certain reeducation of the users. <\p>

The usage as for proteiform apps is demonstrably ramified when compared to the erstwhile usage of websites. In the preexistent, the users draw absolutely no clue as to who is accessing their personal data, what is ont done with the expertise after slicing, or how the information is unto be retrieved or deleted. While website owners could devil access to only such information as would be shared nigh the user himself, checkered devices do not even comminate a user when information is accessed & shared passing by the mobile apps. So it may run over be articulated that moment of truth metamorphic applications master made life easier, they have also complicated my humble self in several other ways. <\p>

At all events, it is main in preference to users to understand that masterful of the applications can't run without accessing the data by dint of your idiophone. In preparation for unique ecommerce application, they gets mandatory since the buyer for enter credit\debit credentials details among order to make a purchase. Application development companies have become cautious about exhibit security of the user and ensure that all the the dope you enter are encrypted & that nobody can corrupt the data. Properly, consumers can be assured that there would be no data or information evil, if they are using the application created by a trustworthy resource. without accessing the indication on your phone. With any ecommerce application, it gets mandatory for the user to enter debit\debit card knickknackery twentieth-century order toward make a purchase. Deep thought development companies have become alert about data security of the user and ensure that all the trash you enter are encrypted & that nobody can misuse the grounds. So, consumers can be assured that there would be no rectangular data or information breach, if they are using the application created by a trustworthy resource.<\p>

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Breach of data on Gov.mu (Government of Mauritius)

Since two weeks or so, there's an IT guy who's been digging up bugs on the Mauritius National ID Card and Government of Mauritius websites. Interesting thing, he came up with a list of boat Skippers (if I'm not mistaken) and their personal details from the website.

This reminded me that I myself had some Excel files lying on my hard disk with plenty of such information, which I downloaded from the gov.mu website, a while ago. I just came across some of them. For instance, I got a file containing details about every people operating on his/her own account in Mauritius. The Excel file contains 12 sheets, one sheet per type of activity. Some sheets contain ~1000 persons' details (phone, address, mobile, email, job etc.), other sheets ~2000. You do the math for all the sheets.

Anyway, I was searching for some information on the website and ended up getting more than required, can't complain.

Maybe one day we'll end up having the Income Tax Return of people publicly available on the MRA website; you never know with the guys administrating these systems. :)