My biggest scoop ever. Facebook was paying teens to snoop on all their data with a secret VPN “Research App”. This story led to the shut down of Faceboook’s Onavo program
My scoop on Snapchat finally building a true developer platform a year after I wrote that its anti-developer attitude was a major liability https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/no-snapplat/
My scoop on Facebook’s latest privacy screwup, where it accidentally changed privacy settings of its status composer to public, leading people to mistakenly overshare
Facebook confirms my scoop that it would demand advertisers pledge they had consent to use people’s contact info, though the tool falls short of verifying that in any way