The Irish High Court will issue a judgment on a legal challenge by Facebook to overturn a draft decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner to suspend the company’s data-sharing with the US. The news follows a last-minute agreement between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and the data regulator who were due to be in court…Continue Reading
Facebook responded to the backlash over the new WhatsApp privacy policy changes, explaining in a FAQ that the app will not lose end-to-end encryption and other privacy features in the upcoming update. WhatsApp prompted users to agree to the new privacy policy a few days ago. Millions of people downloaded competing instant messaging apps like…Continue Reading
Topline Facebook will start taking down content containing the phrase “Stop the Steal,” the company announced Monday, as tech companies continue an unprecedented crackdown on conspiracy theories that fueled the Capitol riots last week. Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman of Facebook, speaks on the second day of the 56th Munich Security … [+] Conference. Photo by Tobias…Continue Reading
Control over the internet has once again taken center stage as Uganda heads to the polls on Jan. 14. with technology giants including Facebook, Google, and Twitter sucked into the bitter fight.On Jan. 9 reports emerged that Facebook had disappeared hundreds of accounts associated with president Yoweri Museveni supporters in Uganda. Some of the accounts…Continue Reading
Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that outgoing president Donald Trump is “indefinitely” banned from Facebook and Instagram. The president has 32 million Facebook followers and 24 million Instagram followers. The ban comes one day after the Capitol came under siege by a group of the president’s supporters, sending lawmakers into a lockdown and leaving four people…Continue Reading
Facebook temporarily shut down the advertising account for a Republican fundraising group just four days before Election Day in the Georgia Runoffs. “Big Tech is at it again,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said Friday on Twitter. “Facebook has shut down the ad account for the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising committee for…Continue Reading
As the world inches closer to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, Facebook has yet again been caught taking money from anti-vaxx campaigners and conspiracy theorists to promote their harmful content to more of the tech giant’s users. After years of warnings that anti-vaccine campaigners were using the platform to recruit and spread their anti-science…Continue Reading
Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images)Facebook has taken out its second round of full-page ads in two days seeking to have Apple… not roll out a privacy update or something.At issue is an iOS update that will require users to provide explicit, opt-in consent to allow apps to track them with Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA),…Continue Reading
Last Updated: 18th November, 2020 03:56 IST Facebook’s Australian director of public policy Mia Garlick apologised for how the social networking site had handled the case. In a case of delayed action, Facebook has issued an apology over the failure of handling reports of abuse received by Australian lawmaker Anne Webster from an online conspiracy theorist. As per The Guardian reports,…Continue Reading
Facebook is creating an artificial intelligence tool that will summarize news articles into bullet points so that a user won’t have to read the whole article, according to BuzzFeed News. The AI assistant tool — named “TLDR” for the acronym “too long; didn’t read” — was revealed during an end-of-year companywide meeting on Tuesday, according…Continue Reading
Doha Madani4h ago / 9:51 PM UTCSheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, shared a photo Tuesday of her father, a doctor, receiving his Covid-19 vaccination at his Florida hospital. Sandberg shared her father’s post, in which he said he had tears in his eyes when he walked in for his appointment as he hoped for “the…Continue Reading
