In the context of the privacy crisis that engulfed the entire social network, the non-profit organization Mozilla pointed out: “Facebook’s current app permissions leave billions of its users vulnerable.” In view of this, the Firefox...
Facebook appointed Shahriar Rabii, former head of Google’s chip business, as its vice president and head of the chip division. Like Apple, Google, and Amazon, the technology company also hopes to get rid of its...
British Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham announced on Wednesday that she intends to impose a fine on Facebook for violating the data protection law. Currently, her office is investigating how the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly...
Facebook confirmed that it had acquired Bloomsbury AI to improve the company’s natural language processing capabilities. Specific financial details have not yet been disclosed, but according to TechCrunch, the purchase price may be between $25 million and...
Facebook acknowledged that it allowed 61 companies to access user data even after announcing restrictions on access to such data in 2015. The Wall Street Journal article stated that on Friday, local time, Facebook submitted...
The study found that a third-party test application named “NameTests” exposed 120 million Facebook users’ data. However, this application’s vulnerability didn’t repair until last month, which has further increased the Facebook data scandal. The privacy scandal...
Senior members of US Senate’s intelligence committee hope that CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter can attend public hearings to answer questions about platform security, including the relationship between these companies and Chinese mobile...
According to CNBC website reported on April 11 that Facebook announced on Tuesday the launch of a rewards program to provide users up to $40,000 in rewards for finding data abuse cases on the...
According to the Economic Times of India on April 5, a member of the Indonesian cabinet threatened to shut down Indonesia in the country if there is evidence that personal data of Indonesian citizens...
Last week, a New Zealand man, @dylanmckaynz dragged back his data archive from Facebook and was surprised to find that the social network has been collecting a lot of information on Android devices. Dylan McKay looked...
