Facebook: We’ll implement GDPR privacy protections globally
The company’s public commitment puts pressure on others in the US to make the same pledge. Contradicting an earlier report […]
Facebook does not plan to apply GDPR globally
The news comes despite a January announcement of a global privacy center. The beleaguered CEO says the social network ‘wanted […]
Facebook apologises for storing draft videos users thought they had deleted
Facebook continues to deal with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files, announcing policy changes and bug fixes aimed at […]
Facebook Isn’t Telling the Whole Story About Stopping Partnering With Data Brokers
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy […]
Lessons for Facebook from an academic social network
With Facebook under fire for inadequate privacy protections, how has one of the oldest academic social networks avoided the same […]
Facebook Is Not the Problem. Lax Privacy Rules Are.
If we learn anything from the recent controversies surrounding the social media giant, it should be that America’s privacy laws […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Facebook: Privacy ‘is a human right, it’s a civil liberty’
When asked what he would do if he were Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cook replied: “I wouldn’t be in this […]
No, Facebook, It’s Not about Security; It’s About Privacy
Finally, Mark Zuckerberg has spoken. The short version of his response? “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and […]
Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising
Mozilla is pressing pause on our Facebook advertising. Facebook knows a great deal about their two billion users — perhaps […]
Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and […]
AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle
Documents released last week shed more light on the puzzle of the company’s links to Cambridge Analytica. What Christopher Wylie […]
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and […]