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Facebook cracks down on private surveillance companies of targeting users

8 months ago
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc is calling out half a dozen private surveillance companies for hacking or other abuses, accusing them in a report https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Threat-Report-on-the-Surveillance-for-Hire-Industry.pdf published Thursday of collectively targeting about 50,000 people across its platforms. The company’s fight with the spy firms comes amid a wider move by American tech companies https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-files-lawsuit-against-nso-group-2021-11-23, U.S. lawmakers […]
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UK aims to clampdown on internet with Online Safety Bill

9 months ago
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries vowed on Thursday that the new Online Safety Bill will be tougher on tech firms who “have the ability to put right what they’re doing wrong now.” Dorries warned that under the new law, social media companies would have to “remove harmful algorithms today” or face immediate criminal prosecution. The […]
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UK informed of how Facebook amplified online hate

10 months ago
Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Frances Haugen on Monday told lawmakers in the United Kingdom working on legislation to rein in social media companies that the company is making online hate and extremism worse and outlined how it could improve online safety. Haugen appeared before a parliamentary committee scrutinizing the British government’s draft legislation […]
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Moves in US to block facebook monopoly on cryptocurrency

10 months ago
A group of U.S. lawmakers said Facebook Inc FB.O cannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency and urged the social media platform to discontinue immediately a small pilot of its cryptocurrency wallet named Novi, which was launched on Tuesday. U.S. Democratic senators Brian Schatz, Sherrod Brown, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith voiced their opposition […]
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Facebook puts profits ahead of user safety, reveals whistleblower

10 months ago
US lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children and stokes divisions. During a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how Facebook entices users to […]
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In latest excuse facebook blames pro-Abbas Palestinian hackers

1 year ago
Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a booby-trapped app for submitting human rights stories. In a report published Wednesday, Facebook (FB.O) accused what it said was the cyber wing of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS), which is loyal to […]
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Facebook found to be guilty of sexism in job practices

1 year ago
Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study. University of Southern California researchers who examined the ad-delivery algorithms of Facebook and LinkedIn found that Facebook’s were skewed by gender beyond what can be legally justified by differences in […]
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Australia continues war with facebook, Canada joins fight

1 year ago
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed on Friday to press ahead with laws to force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, saying he had received support from world leaders after the social media giant blacked out all media. Facebook stripped the pages of domestic and foreign news outlets for Australians and blocked users […]
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Social media double-standards stretch from US to France to India

1 year ago
Facebook Inc. said on Wednesday it would temporarily reduce political content appearing on New Feeds for some users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week and in the United States within the coming weeks. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in January that he wanted to “turn down the temperature” of political conversations on the […]
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Imran Khan charges Facebook, Macron with Islamophobic campaigning

2 years ago
Pakistan’s prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site, warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims, the government said on Sunday. In a letter, which the Pakistani government posted on Twitter, Imran Khan said that “growing Islamophobia” was encouraging extremism and violence across the world, especially […]
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Climate science info centre for facebook in face of fake news criticisms

2 years ago
Facebook on Tuesday launched a climate science information center to elevate credible sources on climate change, as critics question its role in the spread of misinformation on the issue. Facebook said the project is modeled on its COVID-19 Information Center, and launched a similar feature last month on voting in preparation for US elections in […]
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Facebook implicated in racist militia violence in US

2 years ago
Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group’s page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. The page for the “Kenosha Guard” violated Facebook’s policies and had been flagged by “a bunch of people,” Zuckerberg said […]
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Facebook Scandal May Impact China Overseas Surveillance Plans

4 years ago
China is turning artificial intelligence, face scanning, and other Big Data systems into new tools domestically to enhance the communist party’s command and control systems. The party’s methods of surveillance and increasing use of technology present an interesting contrast with the ongoing scandal concerning the scraping and manipulation of Facebook data. In fact, analysts argue, […]
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UK to order Facebook, Google to redo data policies: Report

4 years ago
The UK government will direct Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and other tech companies to simplify their data management policies for consumers after disclosures about recent breaches, the Sunday Times reported. Matt Hancock, the UK digital, culture and media secretary, told the newspaper that the digital powerhouses were failing to provide users with […]
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Facebook gets into more trouble as data security issues mount

4 years ago
Even as Cambridge Analytica and its alleged illegal use of private data and profiles put Facebook in trouble this last week, the social media giant is falling deeper into the vortex created over security fears. Zuckerberg says Facebook 'made mistakes' on Cambridge Analytica (Reuters) Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the […]
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