Facebook announces new European privacy controls, for the world
Ahead of the GDPR, which is set to come into effect in May Illustration by Alex Castro Facebook is introducing new privacy controls to each of its 2 billion users as part of compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will come…
Facebook is making it easier to see all the personal data it collects about you
These are cosmetic changes, but might help Facebook appease regulators. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One of the issues with the way that tech companies like Facebook collect personal data from people is that they often make it hard for those people to understand what…
Facebook Apologizes with Full-Page Newspaper Ads in the US, UK
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg went on an apology spree, granting interviews to various television networks, news publications and online blogs, trying to pacify irate users and privacy advocates who have been adding fuel to the #DeleteFacebook fire. Now, the social networking company has taken…
Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices
iOS devices appear to be unaffected Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have…
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