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 Said the Personal Data of Most Its 2B Users Has Been Collected and Shared with Outsiders…
Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their personal information scraped by outsiders without the users’ explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe and sent the company’s stock price tumbling. The […]
Facebook Shared Data from Nearly 87M Users…
Local Police Questioned YouTube Shooter Prior to Rampage…
The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car. She had been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the […]
Furious at YouTube, Passionate About Fitness, Veganism and Animal Welfare: Shooter Left a Bewildering Profile…
Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s Plan for Voters’ Facebook Data…
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]
U.S. Government Confirms It’s Investigating Facebook, Sending Shares Plummeting…
The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday morning that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices. The news came in a press release sent out Monday morning, and Facebook’s shares have already dropped more than 5% from opening. The FTC serves as the consumer watchdog over privacy issues, so it’s no surprise […]
Facebook Has Been Storing Logs of Phone Calls, Text Messages for Years…
Academics Refused to Carry Out ‘Unethical’ Cambridge Analytica Research…
Facebook Denies It’s Collecting Call and Text Data Through Google Android Apps Without Permission…
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