India’s federal election commission has fixed flaws on its website that exposed data related to citizens’ requests for information related to their voting eligibility status, local political candidates and parties, and technical details about electronic voting machines.
The bugs allowed access to the RTI requests, download transaction receipts, and responses shared by the officials without properly authenticating user logins.
Some of the exposed data included the RTI filing date, the questions asked, the applicant’s name and mailing address, the applicant’s poverty line status, and RTI responses.
The bugs were fixed earlier this week following CERT-In’s intervention.
The Election Commission of India did not respond to a request for comment.
A bug on X, formerly Twitter, was causing numerous posts over the weekend to be flagged as “Sensitive Media,” thwarting the company’s own attempts to make its platform more approachable to advertisers.
Today, a bug in our system caused X to incorrectly label numerous posts as Sensitive Media.
— Safety (@Safety) January 21, 2024“Sensitive media” is a label X uses to denote content that others may not wish to see, like violence or nudity.
X asks its users who want to regularly post such items, to adjust their media settings to appropriately mark their images.
This is being fixed.” An hour later, he reposted the message from the X safety team which referred to the issue as a bug.
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