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As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.
Facebook and Google this week announced the decision to postpone this year's BountyCon bug hunting conference due to health risks. "Out of an abundance of caution, we've decided to postpone BountyCon due to evolving public health risks related to coronavirus. While this was a difficult decision to make, our priority is the health and safety of our attendees," Facebook says.
That's why, following the World Health Organization having declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, Facebook late last month said it would help by trying to limit the spread of nonsense on its platform, including, for example, snakeoil posts about the fake miracle bleach cure. As Business Insider reported, the platform plans to ban ads that promise to cure the contagious illness or that try to "Create a sense of urgency" about it.
Facebook recently investigated suspicious content meant to support U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders but was unable to substantiate involvement by Russians or supporters of President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Last week, The Washington Post reported that U.S. officials had told Sanders that Russia was trying to support his campaign.
Facebook gave up trying to hide behind that one long ago, somewhere amongst the outrage sparked by extremist content, fake news and misleading political advertising. During a Q&A session at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook isn't the passive set of telco pipes he once insisted it was, but nor is it like a regular media outlet that produces news.
The theft of access token represents a major API security risk moving forward, but also highlights how API risks can remain undetected for so long. API risk is rooted in a lack of visibility, not only into its traffic, but also into its flexible and powerful parameters, known as API specifications-or "Specs." DevOps and SecOps attempt to mitigate this risk by creating and maintaining API catalogs, which are a collection of its specs.
Facebook has delayed the rollout of its dating service across the EU, following a Monday "Dawn raid" by Irish privacy investigators. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which takes the lead on all General Data Protection Regulation probes of Facebook, says it was informed on Feb. 3 by the social network of its plan to introduce its dating service in the EU. "We were very concerned that this was the first that we'd heard from Facebook Ireland about this new feature, considering that it was their intention to roll it out ," the DPC says in a statement.
Facebook and its Irish data regulator gave conflicting signals Thursday about what caused the tech giant to postpone the European launch of its vaunted dating app. The regulator said Facebook only informed it about the new product's launch on February 3.
A court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers in Russia, the largest penalties imposed on Western technology companies under internet use laws. Russia's internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has tried unsuccessfully for several years to force large companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to move Russian user data to Russia.
Facebook has delayed the rollout of its new dating feature in Europe, following officers from the Irish data regulator having popped by to ask why Facebook hadn't checked in about it earlier or provided the necessary data privacy paperwork. The Irish Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday that Facebook Ireland hadn't bothered to contact the DPC about its intention to roll out the new dating feature in the EU until Monday, 3 February.