Security News

German Antitrust Office Restricts Facebook Data Processing
2019-02-07 12:48

Facebook Must Obtain Consent to Combine User Data From Different SourcesGermany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has prohibited Facebook from combining user data from different...

How to Delete Accidentally Sent Messages, Photos on Facebook Messenger
2019-02-06 07:48

Ever sent a message on Facebook Messenger then immediately regretted it, or an embarrassing text to your boss in the heat of the moment at late night, or maybe accidentally sent messages or photos...

Mozilla Concerned of Facebook’s Lack of Transparency
2019-02-06 03:46

Mozilla is concerned about Facebook’s lack of transparency regarding political advertising, Chief Operating Officer Denelle Dixon said last week in a letter to the European Commission.

Facebook's New Privacy Hires
2019-02-04 17:07

The Wired headline sums it up nicely -- "Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics": In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and...

Facebook Gets Its First Real Privacy Penalty - From Apple
2019-02-01 14:48

Apple's Privacy Warning to Facebook: We Can Break YouApple's conflict with Facebook this week resulted in the most effective and quickest punishment the social network has ever received over a...

Google says sorry for pulling a Facebook with monitoring program
2019-02-01 10:32

It was using the same Apple enterprise back door as Facebook to get its market research done, but it owned up and backed off.

Apple yoinks enterprise certs from Facebook, Google, killing internal apps, to show its power
2019-02-01 01:56

You have been warned, says Cupertino: Tech giants abuse dev program, iPhone maker eventually undoes ban After briefly punishing Facebook and Google for violating the rules of its enterprise...

Facebook Boots Hundreds of Iran-Linked Accounts For Spreading Misinformation
2019-01-31 22:09

Facebook is continuing to crack down on misinformation, political meddling, and "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on its platform.

Facebook Takes Down Vast Iran-led Manipulation Campaign
2019-01-31 20:16

Facebook said Thursday it took down hundreds of "inauthentic" accounts from Iran that were part of a vast manipulation campaign operating in more than 20 countries. The world's biggest social...

Apple kicks Facebook’s snoopy Research app out of the App Store
2019-01-31 12:51

It was paying people, including teens, up to $20 to install an app that got root access for “nearly limitless access,” encryption or no.