Taylor Swift's Facial Recognition, the Year's Worst Passwords, and More Security News This Week

If you thought you were going to make it out of 2018 without a couple more data slip-ups, think again! Monday, Google revealed that a bug in its somehow still alive Google social network exposed the data of 52.5 million users. That's orders of magnitude bigger than the 500,000 users that were impacted by a previous Google exposure. And on Friday, Facebook announced that it had exposed photos of up to 6.8 million users for nearly two weeks in September. The timing on Facebook's disclosure was auspicious! Not only had it just opened a one-day "pop-up" in New York City to tout its focus on user privacy, it had also announced its biggest yet bug bounty payout.