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Facebook Emails Show How it Sought to Leverage User Data
2018-12-05 17:38

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. Parliament committee accused Facebook on Wednesday of cutting special deals with some advertisers to give them more access to data as it released 250 pages worth of documents...

Facebook Mulled Charging for Access to User Data
2018-11-30 06:07

Facebook on Wednesday said it considered charging application makers to access data at the social network. Such a move would have been a major shift away from the policy of not selling Facebook...

Sorry, we haven't ACLU what happened in sealed 'Facebook decryption' case, but let's find out
2018-11-29 12:15

American Civil Liberties Union wants to know what govt asked for, and why court refused The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to find out what went on in a court case in...

Social media scraping app Predictim banned by Facebook and Twitter
2018-11-28 12:00

We all want a "perfect" babysitter. But can we trust AI to comb through years of social media posts and label people with a "score?"

Facebook bug resurrects ghostly messages from the past
2018-11-28 11:50

In the latest in a long line of SNAFUs, it seems Facebook has found a new way to inadvertently torment us: resurfacing old chat messages.

Facebook Knew About Russian Activity in 2014: British MP
2018-11-27 16:38

A British MP on Tuesday claimed Facebook knew about potentially malicious Russian activity in 2014, long before such activity becomes public, during a parliamentary hearing where international...

LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users
2018-11-27 12:23

What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.

Parents slam “weirdo” fraudsters for using child’s Facebook pic for cash
2018-11-27 11:34

Did you help spread the viral scowling Pop-Tart™-deprived kid photo last week? Can't be helped, mom said, but using it to raise cash was "lame."

UK Parliament Seizes Confidential Facebook Documents
2018-11-26 15:49

Britain’s parliament has seized confidential Facebook documents from the developer of a now-defunct bikini photo searching app as it turns up the heat on the social media company over its data...

LinkedIn used 18M non-member emails to target Facebook ads. Were you a victim?
2018-11-26 13:30

A Data Protection Commissioner investigation found that LinkedIn violated data protection policies shortly before onset of GDPR.