Talk:YouNow

Criticism

Younow as playground for nazis, pedophiliacs and other problematic people http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Institute/Informationswissenschaft/stock/How_Safe_is_younow.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:8C:4C0C:FF00:D5D4:A422:4164:E338 (talk) 16:02, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

No criticism in the article. The article seems to be a PR article, written by the PR dept. of the owner. Dangers on younow are real http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-lebowitz/the-unregulated-world-of-younow_b_5602908.html but this info is not taken into the article even though scientifically (see other link above) based and proven.

Who censors the article? The company younow will have to expect legal trouble in the European Union for not keeping pedophiliacs off the minors in the younow chat system. The Huffington Post link thus must be mentioned in the article.

I will consider adding this, and the recent data breach, to the YouNow article. --LABcrabs (talk) 02:26, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Bad data protection - YouNow — 40 million accounts hacked in 2019

https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/data-breach-website.html?fbclid=IwAR1HV-b0DEOAG7owhiPktK8zn3M0ez95n78POm7huMWWj9PyiaxpZbdGFho — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C0:DF2B:FB00:DD19:1FAD:F72B:DEE3 (talk) 15:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

For whoever else wants to write this up, a better summary can be found here.

"In February 2019, YouNow was contacted by a reporter regarding a potential data breach into YouNow's user data, which allegedly occurred in 2017 and involved the exposure of user records for 40,000,000 users. The information provided by the reporter included a small sample of the data from the alleged breach, and included basic personal information (names), partial email information, and public IP addresses. YouNow considers the impact of the disclosed information to be minimal, as the disclosure of names, partial email information, and public IP addresses of the users in these circumstances is unlikely to cause substantial damage. Following the report, YouNow launched an internal review into the matter, and has not found any conclusive evidence of a data breach into its systems. We believe, however, that it is likely that it occurred. Regardless, YouNow has proactively taken action to secure its systems by revoking all existing passwords and access keys into any service and system which has access to user data, and introducing Single Sign On (SSO) and 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) across the company."

JikiScott (talk) 15:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)