Russia’s Watchdog May Block Facebook If Network Fails to Comply With Laws
The Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor might raise the issue of blocking Facebook if the social network fails to relocate the […]
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Facebook fined $33 million for failing to provide user data to Brazil court
The judge fined Facebook for failing to give access in 2016 to WhatsApp messages exchanged by individuals under investigation for […]
Are Google and Facebook Undermining Europe’s Privacy Rules?
There are growing concerns from regulators, publishers, and privacy watchdogs about the ways that two internet giants—Google and Facebook—plan to […]
Facebook to introduce Clear History privacy tool in coming months
It’s like clearing your web browser history, but this time for Facebook’s wealth of data on your interactions. Facebook has […]
When Online Dating Met Facebook
At this week’s Facebook Developer Conference, or F8, the social network company announced that it will begin introducing online dating […]
Americans don’t trust tech companies on data privacy
Americans have finally started to lose faith in tech companies’ ability to protect their information, according to a survey fielded […]
Irish court rejects Facebook bid to delay EU data privacy case
Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy […]
Facebook bids to keep data privacy case from EU’s top court
Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch […]
FCC Defers Cambridge Analytica Investigation to FTC
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has said the FCC does not plan to investigate reports that Dish, Tivo and ComScore may […]
Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others
A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like […]
Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea.
On March 21, at the height of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of Facebook user data for political targeting, […]
The wealth of our collective data should belong to all of us
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes lays out why we all should benefit from the profits produced by our data. Nearly […]