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Congress Releases Zuckerberg’s Prepared Testimony Ahead of Wednesday’s Hearing…

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Congress has released Mark Zuckerberg’s prepared testimony ahead of a Wednesday hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It’s one of two Capitol Hill appearances for the Facebook founder and CEO this week. Zuckerberg is also scheduled to appear before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday. Facebook is facing […]

Facebook Is Tracking Me Even Though I’m Not on Facebook…

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I don’t use Facebook. I’m not technophobic — I’m a geek. I’ve been using email since the early 1990s, I have accounts on hundreds of services around the net, and I do software development and internet protocol design both for work and for fun. I believe that a globe-spanning communications network like the internet can […]

Sandberg: Facebook Users Would Have to Pay to Opt Out of Sharing Data…

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that while Facebook doesn’t sell or give away its users’ information (it just allows third party apps to do that), the company still “depends on your data,” and if users wanted to completely opt out of all of the platform’s data-driven advertising, they would have to pay for it. Sandberg […]

What Is Mark Zuckerberg Hiding? Facebook Secretly Deletes Some of Its Founders Private Messages Over Fears Sensitive Data May Be Leaked…

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Facebook has deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private messages over fears sensitive data could be leaked. Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox. The recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding. Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony […]

Facebook Backs Off Its Creepy Plans to Secretly Access Private Medical Records…

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Facebook has been in talks with high profile US hospitals in an attempt to obtain patient data about illnesses and prescriptions. The project was being led by a Stanford cardiologist called Freddy Abnousi who claims to lead ‘top-secret projects’ on his LinkedIn. The project aimed to build profiles of people that combined their medical conditions […]

Can We Be Saved From Facebook? by Matt Taibbi…

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We shouldn’t be asking Facebook to fix the problem. We should be fixing Facebook. It’s our collective misfortune that this perhaps silliest-in-history supercorporation – a tossed-off hookup site turned international cat-video vault turned Orwellian surveillance megavillain – has dragged us all to the very cliff edge of modern technological capitalism. We’ve reached a moment in […]

Facebook Bans Image of Jesus for ‘Excessively Violent Content’…

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Facebook has rejected an advertisement by a Catholic college for an online theology program, declaring that the ad contained “shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content” because of the image of a medieval crucifix. On Good Friday, the Franciscan University of Steubenville tried to publish a series of Facebook advertisements for an online program in theology, […]

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