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Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant been paying hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe users’ private audio chats, some of which

August 14, 2019

Technology

US regulators approve £4bn Facebook fine over privacy issues

US regulators approved a roughly 4 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The FTC has been investigating allegations that Facebook inappropriately

July 13, 2019

Technology

President Trump is hosting a social media summit, but excludes Facebook and Twitter

The White House is hosting what it’s calling a “social media summit” on Thursday, but the event won’t include any social media companies. Facebook Inc said it had not been invited while Twitter Inc and Reddit declined to comment. Alphabet Inc’s Google

July 11, 2019

Technology

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down for users across the world

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp have all gone down in a simultaneous and strange outage, People in Japan, South America, Europe and the US all reported problems on Wednesday according to data collected by Downdetector Users are complaining about photos not being able

July 3, 2019

United States

Facebook evacuates four buildings after possible sarin exposure

Facebook Inc evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday after a package at the social media company’s Silicon Valley mail facility tested positive for the toxic compound. The people who

July 2, 2019

Technology

Facebook is to launch cryptocurrency and digital wallet next year

Facebook is to launch a cryptocurrency next year – backed by the likes of Mastercard, Visa and PayPal – which will allow people to move money from their smartphone. The currency is known as Libra, which the social network says it has

June 18, 2019

Technology

Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts in three months

Facebook banned a shocking number of 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first three months of 2019 — almost as many as the total number of real people who use the social network. “We’ve seen a steep increase in the creation of

May 23, 2019

Technology

Now, Facebook reveals why posts appear in your News Feed

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called ‘Why am I seeing this post?’ that explains the factors the site uses to decides which posts appear in your News Feed. The social media platform has introduced a new ‘Why am I seeing this

April 1, 2019

Technology

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Facebook said on Thursday it discovered it had been storing hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords internally in a readable format. The error was revealed in a blog post that detailed how passwords had been stored in a readable format within its internal

March 21, 2019

Technology

Facebook loses chief product officer Chris Cox

Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox is leaving the tech company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a note Thursday. “Chris and I have worked closely together to build our products for more than a decade and I will always appreciate his deep empathy for the

March 15, 2019

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Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

US regulators approve £4bn Facebook fine over privacy issues

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down for users across the world

Facebook evacuates four buildings after possible sarin exposure

Facebook is to launch cryptocurrency and digital wallet next year

Now, Facebook reveals why posts appear in your News Feed

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Facebook loses chief product officer Chris Cox

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