Facebook maintains that it doesn’t need to make changes to its web-tracking services in order to comply with California’s new privacy law, setting up a potential early clash over the measure set to...
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will give internet users in the state the right to see what data big tech companies collect about them and with whom it is shared. "In a few weeks, the...
The data sharing specifically applies to users who've logged into an Oculus VR headset with their Facebook account, which many product owners may have done out of convenience. "To make sure that ...
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) - Australia will boost the resources of the competition regulator and review privacy laws in an effort to rein in the market dominance of digital giants such as Google and Facebook.
Dick Durbin, (D-Illinois) asked Jay Sullivan, Facebook’s product management director for privacy and integrity in Messenger, whether Facebook collected any data from its Messenger Kids app. It was...
Mark Zuckerberg is everyone's favorite punching bag when it comes to beating up on Facebook for all its many perceived privacy violations -- often for good reason. Over the years as Facebook has ...
Apple’s reluctance to officially participate in the world’s leading consumer trade show CES has been softening in recent years, as the company used the 2019 event as a springboard for third-party ...
A Democratic member on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission urged states investigating Facebook Inc. to examine whether the company disregarded earlier promises to protect privacy in order to...
As a result, various governments around the world are investigating the company over data privacy issues. “We are keen to think through what the new rules of the internet should be. The next stage...
For one, the Ninth Circuit's conclusion that plaintiffs can pursue claims for alleged violations of concrete privacy interests that statutes like BIPA are intended to protect without alleging a ...
Vanto said the protection afforded under that law is what allowed social media companies to grow ... that allow them to more effectively root out questionable content may have its own dangers. “You...
Facebook has spent years hoovering up data without really planning for a day in which it would have to surrender that data in any sense. In December of 2018, David Baser, the head of Facebook’s ...
Interim superintendent Charlie Beck announced the mass arrests at a news conference Tuesday and took aim at Facebook's privacy policies, which he said facilitated the practice. Load Error "Today's ...
Chicago Police said Tuesday that 53 people are in custody as part of "Operation FaceBOOKED," a two-year operation to infiltrate secret groups selling drugs and guns on Facebook. Interim...
Regulators, legislators and privacy advocates might not be too fond of Facebook ... “Ad spend continues to shift online and Facebook is a beneficiary,” he writes. He estimates that about 50% of...
Facebook told European Union (EU) regulators that it shouldn’t be forced to share the large amount of data it has with other companies, as that could have unintended potential liability and privacy...
It comes as part of the Data Transfer Project, an agreement between Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter to make it super easy to transfer information between services. Facebook has attempted to...
Facebook told European Union (EU) regulators that it shouldn’t be forced to share the large amount of data it has with other companies, as that could have unintended potential liability and privacy...
Both series will run for 8 episodes. “There is a huge appetite for true crime on Facebook, as evidenced by the literally thousands of private group Pages dedicated to solving and following crime,” ...
Shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, are up by about 25% year-to-date. Facebook shares have risen about 54% year-to-date. In 2018, the European Union approved a sweeping data privacy law...
