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WhatsApp removes option for sharing information with Facebook

WhatsApp has removed the option where you could opt out of their new info-sharing policy.

26 Sep 2016 3:04 PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted mistakes and says his company hasn't taken a broad enough view of what its responsibility is in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg says fixing Facebook will take years

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says fixing the company's problems will take many years.

05 Apr 2018 10:05 AM

Zuckerberg said on Wednesday under questioning by US Representative Ben Luján that, for security reasons, Facebook also collects “data of people who have not signed up for Facebook.”

Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users

Privacy concerns have swamped FB since it acknowledged that information about users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy.

15 Apr 2018 5:29 PM

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sep 2020 8:12 PM

It was unclear about why Facebook was suggesting these keywords, even though the search did not result in any of the said videos, given that Facebook does not allow any type of pornography on its platform.

Facebook auto-suggested child porn videos, apologises

A video search on Facebook ended up in resulting porn search suggestions as auto suggestion.

17 Mar 2018 9:45 AM

A user from New Zealand was curious enough to look into is Facebook data, only to find something amiss. He had downloaded his Facebook data using the ‘download archive’ option available on the social platform.

Facebook allegedly records data from calls, texts on Android phones: Report

Facebook deined the allegations stating that they never sell this data, and does not collect the content of your text messages or calls.

26 Mar 2018 4:05 PM

Mark Zuckerberg took to stage, with a lot of stuff that he promised won’t allow repetition of such a mistake on a large scale. (Photo: Facebook)

All you need to know from Facebook's F8 2018 conference

The two-day event was initiated with a lot of new announcements — both new products and revision of existing ones.

02 May 2018 10:42 AM

The UK committee released more than 200 pages of documents on the tech giant’s internal discussions about the value of users’ personal information. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Documents show Facebook used user data as competitive weapon

Parliament’s media committee accused Facebook on Wednesday of cutting special deals with some app developers.

06 Dec 2018 11:19 AM

Not surprisingly, Facebook doesn't make it easy to leave. To permanently delete your account, you need to make a request to the company. The process can take several days, and if you log in during this time, your request will be cancelled. It can take up to 90 days to delete everything.

Facebook alternatives, Are we up for it?

Facebook connects 2.2 billion users and a host of communities that have sprung up on its network.

21 Mar 2018 1:04 PM

Huawei, a company flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security threat, was the latest device maker at the centre of a fresh wave of allegations over Facebook’s handling of private data.

China’s Huawei says it hasn’t collected Facebook user data

Chinese firms Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL were among numerous handset makers that were given access to Facebook data in a “controlled” way.

07 Jun 2018 5:20 PM

Facebook has forced disclosure of the funding and audience targeting of political advertisements, which it now also archives for public scrutiny. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Facebook opens up on vote meddling, but is the shift real?

A chastened Facebook has since taken steps toward transparency, many of them easy to overlook.

05 Aug 2018 10:52 AM

Facebook also said it removed dozens of accounts for engaging in a campaign that “used seemingly independent news and opinion pages to covertly push the messages of the Myanmar military.”(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Facebook bans Myanmar army chief in unprecedented move

It was the first time Facebook banned a country’s military or political leaders, according to a Facebook spokeswoman.

28 Aug 2018 7:47 AM

Instagram has been on a roll. In June, Systrom travelled to New York to mark the opening of its new office there, complete. (Photo: AP)

Into the fold? What’s next for Instagram as founders leave

Instagram had just 31 million users when Facebook snapped it up for $1 billion; now it has a billion.

26 Sep 2018 7:47 AM

Facebook in India selective with hate speech, celebrations of violence: Report

The documents are part of a larger cache of material collected by whistle blower Frances Haugen

24 Oct 2021 2:42 PM

Here are Facebook CEO's plans to debug the world

Zuckerberg, 32, told the AP that he still strongly believes that more connectedness is the right direction for the world.

17 Feb 2017 12:39 PM

Privacy experts said the disclosure that a researcher had sold Facebook data collected via a personality quiz to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica is a prime example of the kinds of practices that the new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is supposed to prevent or punish.

Privacy issues emerge as major business risk for Facebook

Shares in Facebook fell on March 19 by 7 per cent, their biggest drop since 2014.

20 Mar 2018 9:07 AM

Open source alternatives like Signal and Telegram may be more secure, but their user reach is simply not there.

Breaking up with FaceBook?

While #DeleteFacebook is trending, it is not easy for users to suddenly cut off from the widely used platform.

19 Apr 2018 12:22 AM

The social network acknowledges the data sharing deals, which it says it’s — according to a New York Times report — it has struck with at least 60 device makers since 2007.

New Facebook privacy furore: What’s at stake?

The social network shared user data with companies such as Apple, Amazon, Samsung and other over the past 10 years.

05 Jun 2018 11:38 AM

acebook credits the system with catching at least one ad from a fake, and possibly Russia-connected, a Facebook page that it discovered trying to sow political discord ahead of the US midterm elections. (Photo: AP)

How Facebook regulates the wild west of political ads

With less than three months to go before the midterm elections, Facebook is enforcing strict new requirements on digital political ads.

03 Aug 2018 8:31 AM

None of these partnerships or features gave companies access to information without people’s permission. (Photo: AP)

Facebook defines ‘permission’ loosely

Facebook enabled partners to offer services that tap into Facebook accounts and features.

20 Dec 2018 4:34 PM

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