Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland’s data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in a 2019 data leak.
Facebook has deleted a post by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suspended a chatbot linked to his account for violating the company’s privacy policy. Visitors to the Prime Minister’s Facebook page, who clicked on a link about the coronavirus, received an automatic message, purporting to come from Netanyahu. “If you have friends or family members aged […]
The state of California revealed Wednesday it is investigating Facebook over the technology giant’s privacy practices, complaining in a court filing that the company has failed to comply with multiple requests for information. The investigation, which had not been previously disclosed, has been underway for more than a year. Its existence was confirmed Wednesday when […]
Sorry, Julia Roberts, Usher, Pink, and even Governor Rick Perry — you’ve been duped. Adam Mosseri, chief of Instagram, wants users to know the service isn’t getting ready to use your photos against you. “Heads up!” Mosseri wrote in a post on his verified Instagram Story. “If you’re seeing a meme claiming that Instagram is […]
The Federal Trade Commission announced a $5 billion settlement with Facebook on Wednesday to end an investigation into the company’s privacy practices. It’s a record penalty that shows the federal government taking a harder stance against tech firms but one that may stop short of changing how Silicon Valley does business. Facebook will be required […]
A co-founder of Facebook called for the government to break up the tech giant in an op-ed article Thursday in The New York Times. “The Facebook that exists today is not the Facebook that we founded in 2004,” Chris Hughes, who started Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in their Harvard dorm, told NBC News after the op-ed […]
U.S. border agents can search the laptops and smartphones of U.S. citizens for evidence of a wide range of crimes without first acquiring warrants, according to allegations made in two new court filings submitted Tuesday that are part of a lawsuit against such electronic searches. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said new documents […]
If you have an Apple device with FaceTime, you probably need to disable it for a few days. That’s the word from Apple after the discovery of a bug that lets users listen in on people they’re calling without them picking-up. The user can even see through the front-facing camera of the person they’re calling. […]
