ON MARCH 28th the American government sued Facebook for allowing advertisers to exclude whole categories of people from seeing ads for housing—couples with children, non-Americans, non-Christians, disabled people, Hispanics, and so on. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said this violated the Fair Housing Act, which bans discrimination against certain “protected” groups. Facebook […]
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WhatsApp launches fact-check service to fight fake news during India polls Sai Sachin Ravikumar MUMBAI (Reuters) – WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service for Indians to check the veracity of information, in the messaging platform’s latest attempt to combat fake news in India ahead of national elections beginning this month. WhatsApp said in a statement […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Websites like Reddit and Telegram are being blocked in India by internet service providers, throwing into question the enforcement of net neutrality rules, advocacy groups said on Wednesday. Restrictions on “torrent sites” that offer free movie and music downloads are routine in India to prevent copyright infringement. Pornography websites are also blocked […]
Facebook challenges Belgian tracking ban Facebook is challenging a Belgian court order preventing the company from tracking people without their consent. A Brussels-based court ruled in 2018 that Facebook had broken privacy lawsand needed to delete illegally-gathered data on the country’s citizens. The company is threatened with fines of 250,000 euros (£214,000) a day for […]
Facebook has been charged for allegedly allowing housing advertisers to discriminate against users based on race, sex and disability. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has charged the site for violating the Fair Housing Act. “Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,” HUD secretary Ben […]
Did you know that unlike searching on DuckDuckGo, when you search on Google, they keep your search history forever? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow end of the very deep pool of data that they try to collect on people. […]
Some 70 thousand Telegram users couldn’t sign in on Saturday as their accounts were marked ‘deleted’. The messenger app promises to fix the “server issue.” Telegram users in Europe and North America started to report login problems beginning at 11:00 GMT on Saturday, according to Downdetector monitoring service. The messaging app, which touts its exceptional […]
Speaking at an undergraduate class at Stanford University By Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Mar 17, 2019, 10:22am EDT WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton appeared as a speaker at a class at Stanford University earlier this week, where he spoke about the decision to sell the company to Facebook, and urged students to delete their Facebook accounts. According to […]
Mark Zuckerberg is on a mission to rehabilitate Facebook’s image. The CEO announced his new “privacy-focused vision” for the social media platform this week – but it looks more like a PR stunt than anything else. “Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally, which is why we build social networks,” […]
