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France slaps €210m fine on Facebook and Google

In a case related to cookie tracking of online users, France’s Data Privacy Watchdog slapped a hefty penalty of €210m for stopping companies from snooping on online users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) said that penalty was split between two companies, with Google being slapped with €150m for making it difficult […]

Data mining of Facebook and Twitter posts by China

China is reportedly mining data from users of Facebook and Twitter and the plan is to feed its military with all useful information sieved from the tonnes of data using different AI based machine learning tools. Currently, the focus is majorly on America and UK and will slowly be shifted to Indian users if all […]

Facebook turns least trusted website in America over data and privacy

In a surprising revelation, over 72% of Americans stated they distrust Facebook and its management regarding data and privacy. Over 56% of Americans believe that the social media giant is causing a negative impact on the society. The Washington Post was the source that conducted the survey and stated that the populace of North America […]

Facebook files lawsuit against Phishing Attack

Meta, the Facebook’s parent company, has filed a lawsuit in a Californian court against some hackers who created over 39,000 fake Facebook(FB) pages as a part of a sophisticated phishing campaign. The plan was to create impersonating pages and lure FB users into submitting their login credentials that can later be used for issues such […]

Facebook removes Surveillance-For-Hire companies from its platform

Facebook Company’s parent company Meta has issued a press update last week that it has removed over 50,000 accounts from its platform as they were found breaching its data privacy guidelines. Meta mentioned in its press statement that the said companies operating from China, Israel, India and North Macedonia were indulging in ‘Surveillance-for-hire’ service business […]

Facebook suspends Facial Recognition Program and deletes over 1bn face prints

Facebook has proclaimed that it will stop autonomous identification of faces of its users by putting an end to its in-house Facial Recognition (FR) Program. The decision was taken after over 639 million active users opted out of the service. From now on, the Mark Zuckerberg’s led company faced a lawsuit against its facial recognition […]

Facebook Artificial Intelligence Metaverse is concerning

Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a glimpse of Artificial Intelligence propelled Metaverse technology last week and the explanatory video posted by Mr. Zuckerberg on his account enthralled most of us. However, not everyone has become a fan of the new Metaverse technology, as Eric Schmidt, the former lead of Google, has expressed his concerns […]

Facebook AI algorithms have immensely failed, say UK Ministers

UK Ministers are being urged to rethink on the amendments of Online Safety Bill that gives special powers to social media giant Facebook(FB) to use AI technology to weed out hateful and disinformation filled content. According to an article published in the Wall Street Journal, Online Safety Bill offers powers to tech companies such as […]

Facebook releases tool to discover Security Issues and Software Bugs

Facebook, on a recent note, released an open source Mariana Trench tool for android mobile operating system developers to discover any security and privacy issues in applications meant to be hosted on Google Play Store. The newly designed utility released by the FB helps in scanning large mobile codebases and flag any security or privacy […]

Facebook October 2021 downtime could result from a revolting Cyber Attack

Facebook (FB) issued a press update on Monday October 4th, 2021, stating that all its online services across the world were down because of a configuration error that couldn’t be fixed on time as most of its staff were working from home. However, some media resources such as UK’s Daily Mail claim that the downtime […]

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