Leading far-right activists have received special protection from Facebook, preventing their pages from being deleted even after a pattern of behaviour that would typically result in moderator action being taken. The process, called “shielded review”, was uncovered by Channel 4 Dispatches, after the documentary series sent an undercover reporter to work as a content moderator in a Dublin-based Facebook contractor.

The unchecked power of telecom giants that want to compete with tech companies creates a perfect storm for privacy violations.

The existence of social media as a result of information and communication technology revolution, have positive and negative impacts to watch. Vice President, at the opening ceremony of the Internatio

Facebook says it will not remove fake news from its platform because it does not violate its community standards. The social network is currently running an advertising campaign in the UK that declares "fake news is not our friend". But it said publishers often had "very different points of view" and removing fabricated posts would be "contrary to the basic principles of free speech". Instead, it says posts that it deems to be fake news will be "demoted" in the news feed.

Gotta hear both sides (of the Martian NASA-slavery debate).

We all love using facial recognition technology in services like FaceID or Windows Hello. But it has a serious dark side too. We spoke with a former White House official who has some legitimate concerns with what companies like Facebook is doing with it -- and how it’s being secured online.

When the young Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto in 2004, he and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.

Facebook on Wednesday drew scrutiny for allowing the conspiracy-theory website Infowars to operate a page on its platform just as the social network was trying to promote its efforts in dealing with intentionally false or misleading news.

Social media giants like Facebook should be forced to release their “insidious grip” on young people, the head of the NHS has said. Backing The Telegraph’s campaign for a “duty of care” to web users, Simon Stevens said such firms should face up to their responsiblities, fuelling pressures on today’s children. Last month the chief executive of NHS England promised a “major ramp-up” of mental health services, in order to deal with the fallout for an explosion of social media.

Facebook Inc.’s Instagram is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company, marking a 100-fold return for the app purchased in 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence.

New data shows the impact of Facebook’s pullback from an industry it had dominated (and distorted).

Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an "unethical" way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council. It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of "dark patterns", including intrusive default settings and misleading wording. The firms gave users "an illusion of control", its report suggested. Both Google and Facebook said user privacy was important to them.

The website told a local newspaper they violated its community guidelines by posting the original document

From now until November, every Apple News user in the US will see a curated section of stories about the midterm elections.

Sensitive Facebook information for up to 120 million users was put at risk for years by a leaky quiz application company called Nametests.com, a security researcher disclosed today, proving what many experts previously suspected: Cambridge Analytica was the tip of the iceberg.

Facebook revealed to Congress late Friday that it shared user data with 52 hardware and software-making companies, including some Chinese firms. The new acknowledgement came as part of a more than 700-page document dump to the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Friday evening. The committee released the information publicly on Saturday. Some companies on the list of 52 firms had previously been reported by The New York Times, including device-makers, telecommunications companies and software firms.

As Facebook tries to get ahead of public pressure about what the service does and doesn't track about its users, a patent application has emerged which would enable something that the service's detractors have long theorized and feared: silently triggered microphones that keep tabs on Facebook users.

The federal investigation into data mining firm Cambridge Analytica and its relationship to Facebook has been expanded to include an examination into the social network itself, according to a report from The Washington Post. Specifically, investigators want to know whether members of the social network lied to lawmakers, the public, and investors about the massive data privacy scandal that broke back in March. The investigation is being led by the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A 17-year-old girl hanged herself in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district after intimate photographs of her were posted on Facebook, bringing into sharp focus the social media platform’s guidelines on “revenge porn” after at least three similar incidents over the last 10 months. The photos were allegedly posted by her 21-year-old male friend, with whom she had a fight on Sunday evening. The West Bengal police have detained the man and are investigating, Prasenjit Banerjee, sub-divisional police officer, Jangipur, said.

The UK's data protection watchdog intends to fine Facebook £500,000 for data breaches - the maximum allowed. The Information Commissioner's Office said Facebook had failed to ensure another company - Cambridge Analytica - had deleted users' data. The ICO will also bring a criminal action against Cambridge Analytica's defunct parent company SCL Elections.

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California has passed a landmark privacy bill that restricts the data-harvesting practices of technology companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon and gives consumers more control over their personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act is designed to provide new protections to the state’s 40 million residents in the wake of major privacy breaches including the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The new rules give Californians the right to see what information is being collected about them and to request that data be deleted...

IIt isn’t easy being a political cartoonist or satirist in India. They incur the wrath of politicians, are subjected to vicious trolling on social media and in some cases, even face arrest on charges of sedition, leading to prolonged, expensive lawsuits. A recent ruling by the Madras High Court, however, stands out as a beacon of hope for those who revel in lampooning.

According to Alexa – the Amazon-owned web traffic analyzing platform – more people now visit Reddit than Facebook in the US. Spotted, of course, on Reddit by user IamATechieNerd, the stats will be a big boost for the social sharing platform, especially with many users still irked about the recent re-design. It’s important to note that analyzing web …

After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard show

Say no to defaults. A clickable guide to fixing the complicated privacy settings from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple.

As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information. Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — over the last decade, starting before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, company officials said.

Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems. "We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference. He added that the web browser Safari would ask owners' permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity.

Two key U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday rebuked Facebook Inc for not being more transparent over its data sharing after the social media giant said it had collaborated with at least four Chinese companies, including a smartphone maker that has raised U.S. security concerns.

The Facebook CEO can’t be trusted.

Rules appear to target services like Onavo Protect, which claims to protect user data even as it feeds information to Facebook

Here’s what happens when you try to rummage through the garbage of the man who owns the world’s secrets.

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has met with officials of social media giant Facebook over reports of a massive data breach involving British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. NPC commissioner Raymund Liboro yesterday said they met with Facebook representatives to discuss the data breach, which involved over 87 million users worldwide. “Facebook told the NPC that 558 Filipino users installed Aleksandr Kogan’s personality quiz app, through which personal data may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” Liboro said.

Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg now runs a site that 400 million people visit each month. But back in May 2004, he was a 19-year-old finishing up his sophomore year at Harvard. He was also the acclaimed founder and creator of an increasingly popular Web site called TheFacebook.com, which had launched in February 2004.