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11/08/2024
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By Arsenio Toledo
South Korea’s privacy watchdog fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting data from Korean Facebook users
The South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), the country’s national data protection government agency, has fined Big Tech company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15.46 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Korean users on Facebook. This is the latest in a series of fines and penalties the government of South Korea has slapped Facebook’s parent […]
10/16/2024
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By Ava Grace
Harvard students demonstrate how Meta smart glasses can be used to instantly identify people and access their personal information
Students from Harvard University have found that Meta’s new smart glasses can be used to identify an individual and obtain access to their personal information. Facebook, in partnership with luxury sunglasses maker Ray-Ban, created Ray-Ban Stories. These smart glasses are loaded with a dual integrated five-megapixel camera, a three microphone array and discreet open-ear speakers. Wearers […]
10/03/2024
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By Belle Carter
Ireland fines Meta $102M for lapse in PASSWORD SECURITY
Ireland has slapped a huge fine on Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms, alongside a formal reprimand, for failing to protect its users’ passwords. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the penalties on Sept. 27, emphasizing that the company failed to implement appropriate security measures for user passwords. The €91 million ($102 million) fine and formal […]
09/02/2024
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By Zoey Sky
Meta blocks more fake WhatsApp accounts linked to Iranian hackers they claim are targeting U.S. elections
Meta Platforms – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – has revealed that Iranian-linked hackers pretended to be tech support on the WhatsApp messaging app to target people associated with the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The company disclosed this on Aug. 23, commenting that the incident provides the latest evidence […]
06/25/2024
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By Laura Harris
Investigation reveals Instagram’s algorithm regularly suggests explicit content to users as young as 13 years old
A recent Wall Street Journal and Northeastern University (NEU) study has found that Instagram’s algorithm routinely suggests sexually explicit content to users as young as 13. The study, conducted by Laura Edelson, a computer science professor at NEU, involved researchers setting up multiple Instagram accounts registered to 13-year-olds to monitor the content suggested by Instagram’s Reels feed over a seven-month period ending […]
06/10/2024
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By Zoey Sky
Meta covertly training AI with user data without providing Instagram and Facebook users easy opt-out options
Facebook parent company Meta has begun training its generative artificial intelligence features on user data in a manner that makes it difficult for users to opt-out. Someone with basic knowledge of how user interface/experience (UX) and user behavior works often believe that it’s best to use default settings. It’s also worth noting that the ability to “opt-out,” or […]
06/03/2024
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By Belle Carter
House representatives want to sunset CDA Section 230 and give birth to stricter “censorship” rules
On May 22, a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing was led by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wherein lawmakers discussed a new Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) proposal that would terminate the law and create a new stricter solution that “ensures safety and accountability for past and future harm.” Section 230 […]
05/24/2024
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By Laura Harris
Big Tech leads million-dollar campaign to kill bills that are meant to keep children safe online
Major tech companies, including Google, Meta and TikTok, are leading a million-dollar campaign to block two New York bills that claim to keep children safe online. Google, Meta and TikTok, along with PayPal, Snap, Roblox, eBay, Block, Tech: NYC and TechNet, have already spent $823,235 to influence the legislative process of the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and […]
05/21/2024
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By Belle Carter
Jeff Bezos, Facebook LINKED to DARPA’s data gathering and privacy invasion program
Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos was linked by a report to the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its pet project Lifelog, a social media platform that was used to gather vast amounts of user information and the government’s move to develop “next-generation anti-terrorism tools.” According to the project, […]
04/30/2024
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By News Editors
Privacy under siege: Europol and the UK Crime Agency target encryption, call for backdoors
What is best known as the “politicization of institutions” in authoritarian societies is these days making a creeping but steady progress in some countries/blocs one would not have suspected of such things until relatively recently. (Article by Didi Rankovic republished from ReclaimTheNet.org) Here we have Europol (EU’s law enforcement agency) and the supposedly “divested” from the […]
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