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Off-Facebook Activity lets users see a summary of the apps and websites that send Facebook information about their activity. Over the past decade when we saw Facebook shifting from just another social network, it greatly expanded its feature range. With this, tools such as “Facebook Login” and “Facebook Pixel” were launched. In the case of […]
Data protection specialists report on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decision to apply a $5 billion USD fine to Facebook due to multiple practices that violate several social media users’ privacy protection laws. The FTC’s decision has led to multiple unconformities because, after months of debate and investigations into the social network well-known misconduct […]
Facebook’s fate now involves controversies that have ignited after the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Following all the data-breach issues, Facebook could now land up in a new one — courtesy — Mark Zuckerberg’s old emails. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s employees (close to the matter) have found old emails that suggest […]
Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans are gaining more traction as the days pass by, at least, according to the news headlines. It got a couple of names like Libra and GlobalCoin. Past reports have suggested that the new blockchain-based money won’t arrive until 2020. But according to The Information, the blue network could unveil its much-hyped cryptocurrency […]
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is creative, and the fact that he started what is now a ~$700 billion company from his dorm room is a clear example of his creativity. Zuckerberg has recently shown off his creativity in a new invention that has been exclusively designed for his wife Priscilla Chan. In an Instagram post, […]
A new NBC report has revealed another damning story about how Mark Zuckerberg had plans to consolidate Facebook’s power by leveraging user data as a bargaining chip. The 4,000 pages report, which was leaked by anonymous sources, sheds light on how top executives of Facebook, including CEO Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, considered making deals with third-party developers to evaluate exactly how […]
It’s a new day and Facebook is featured in the news yet again (for the wrong reasons of course!). The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has been found leaking data of millions of users to third-parties. According to a report by Research Firm UpGuard, two sets of user data has been discovered which was exposed to all. […]
If you follow Mark Zuckerberg, you know he takes up challenges every year, and this year’s involved a fix in technology. Continuing this, Zuckerberg held a public discussion wherein, apart from talking about journalism and technology, he hinted at Facebook’s standalone news service. In a conversation with the CEO of Europe’s publisher Axel Springer, Mark […]
I remember the days when Facebook was the hot thing and scrolling through the News Feed every day was as mandatory as eating food. Breaking the flashback bubble and coming back to the present, Facebook is a mess now. With data breaches and a lot more happening, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned platform (which we all adored even […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up in an op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post and expressed his views regarding the content available on the internet and the dire need to regulate it. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has too much power over speech and it is time that government bodies must intervene to make […]
A former Facebook executive, Alex Stamos, at the Washington Post’s technology and policy conference, has suggested that Mark Zuckerberg can foresee the advantage of a decision perceived as insane. It is suggested that while at present his decisions could prove insane and unrequired for, they prove to be beneficial in the future. “Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on more data about what people want […]
Facebook has gained a lot of negative spotlights for all the data breach scandals it has got its head into. Adding more to the scrutiny, the social networking site is now under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, as per a report by The New York Times. It is suggested that a New York jury has […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to introduce end-to-end encryption and auto-expire features on Messenger and other Facebook apps, to fulfill his commitment to privacy. In a 3,200 words blog post published by Zuckerberg, he announced that the company wants to become a “privacy-focused communications platform” for which new changes will be made to all Facebook-owned apps. At present, Facebook provides […]
At the beginning of the year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that he would hold public talks as a part of 2019 resolution which aims at solving issues in the tech world. Taking this forward, Zuckerberg had a 100-minute conversation with Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain where he tried to explain how Facebook is all about protecting the privacy of its users. […]
Facebook is a trove of an unimaginable amount of data, and by now, we are aware that the company can track us individually by using it. In a startling revelation by CNBC, it has been found that Facebook also keeps track of the location of all those users who threaten its employees and the company. […]
Update: After the report surfaced, Facebook said it would shut down the iOS version of its Research app, however, Apple says it has already blocked Facebook’s app because it violated Apple’s policies. Here is the complete statement: “We designed our Enterprise Developer Program solely for the internal distribution of apps within an organization. Facebook has been […]
An ex-classmate of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given very bold statements about the social media giant, claiming that 50% of the profiles on the platform are fake. In the report, Aaron Greenspan, the old Harvard pal of the CEO, alleges that there is no way to measure the company’s true Monthly User Base (MAU) accurately. In […]
A report by The New York Times has indicated that Mark Zuckerberg is planning to integrate Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The integration of all the Facebook-owned services will lead to the creation of a large ecosystem where users can interact with each other through any of the services. The report says that each app will continue to operate individually but […]
Each year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes up new resolutions, and this year too, Zuckerberg has a list of challenges he needs to overcome in 2019. In a lengthy Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, he revealed plans to find answers to various questions related to the world and technology’s place in it, in addition, to continue […]
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have raised nearly $5 billion by selling almost 29 million Facebook shares to fund an ambitious research programme called the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). A part of the research programme includes the development of a brain-machine interface and devices that can essentially translate thoughts into commands. In a paper published […]
Snapchat’s parent company Snap went public in March 2017 with a valuation of $24 billion. This Friday, Snap’s stock closed at its lowest ever value — less than $5 for the first time. A new report from The Wall Street Journal has shed some more light on the current situation of Snapchat. One of the […]