The UK government is taking a hard line when it comes to online safety, appointing what it claims is the world’s first independent regulator to keep social media companies in check.
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Questions around the ease uploading and sharing hate-filled and violent content came to the forefront after a white supremacist live-streamed himself opening fire on a Christchurch mosque on Facebook Live last week.
In a 118-page complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Facebook accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice messaging technology, among other patented processes.
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“My personal challenge for 2018 has been to fix the most important issues facing Facebook — whether that’s defending against election interference by nation states, protecting our community from abuse and harm, or making sure people have control of their information,”
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Over the past few months, WhatsApp has drawn flak over its use in spreading fake news through its platform that have even incited incidents of mob-lynching in various parts of the country.
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Facebook admitted that up to 87 million users may have had their data hijacked by Cambridge Analytica, which was working for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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Facebook’s founding president, Sean Parker, earlier said the company was “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology” and that the company set out to consume as much user time as possible.
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“Social media enables people to spread information faster than ever before, and if we don’t specifically tackle these problems, then we end up amplifying them.” – Mark Zuckerberg
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This model seemed harmless enough in the beginning. But over the years it’s morphed into a massive information-gathering machine fueled by the personal data of its users.
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The redesign comes at a time when Facebook is embroiled in a widening scandal after reports that British data firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered detailed Facebook information on 87 million users, up from a previous estimate of more than 50 million.
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The class will consist of Facebook users in Illinois for whom Facebook created and stored facial recognition algorithms after June 7, 2011, Donato ruled.
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Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the platform has always been about personal connections and interactions in meaningful ways.
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Budaraju said blood banks and non-profits across the country were now using this feature to help raise awareness of voluntary blood donation camps.
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The European Union will take measures to tax US tech giants if the international community doesn’t agree to a new system early next year…
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“We understand the important role Facebook plays here in Nigeria with developers and start-ups and are invested in helping these communities…”
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The Philippines government has partnered with Facebook to put up a high-speed internet infrastructure in a few years time, promising a capacity that would be “almost equal” to that of the giants of the telecommunications industry.
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…an adviser to the top European Union court said any data protection authority in the bloc had the power to take action against it for breaching privacy laws.
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Detailing the new feature in a blog post, Instagram said, “Live video helps you share in an authentic way, but sometimes it can be intimidating…
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