via yahoo: Google has had a lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition software thrown out, with a judge dismissing the case on the grounds that the plaintiff in the case did not suffer “concrete injuries,” Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The ruling puts to …
Zuckerberg is zuck’d: http://archive.is/wZOSt
via 9to5mac: Aleksandra Korolova, a University of Southern California computer science professor, has shared a post on Medium diving deeper into Facebook’s targeted ad technology. Specifically, Korolova focuses on how Facebook is able to deliver location-based ads even if you disable …
From John Stossel at Reason: Leaked emails show some Google engineers blaming their company for Trump’s 2016 win, suggesting that the site should censor outlets like The Daily Caller and Breitbart. Google says the company never did that, but for many people, it raises …
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents underscore how personal data has become the digital age’s prized commodity. For years, Facebook gave …
by AssuredlyAThrowAway via NYT: For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records …
by DCG Four years and counting since I deleted my FB account. You couldn’t pay me to go back to it. From Hollywood Reporter: Facebook’s privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million …
Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers too much access to the photos of up to 5.6 million users. The bug allowed apps users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook …
Facebook tried to conceal that it was secretly vacuuming up call and text logs from Android users without their permission, newly-released internal documents have revealed. The hundreds of pages of documents, which were previously sealed as part of an ongoing …
HAHAHA: http://archive.is/r79Sx Well Facebook shouldn’t be censoring people with different opinions Their stocks will probably be so useless that they will be compared to toilet paper in the next 5 years AD
Snapchat continued to shrink in Q3 2018 but its business is steadily improving. Snapchat’s daily active user count dropped again, this time by 1 percent to 186 million, down from 188M and a negative 1.5 percent growth rate in Q2. User count is still …
by chocoladna Reddit is nearly an empire now, how much more money does the billionaire Newhouse family/Advance Publications need? New additions to the reddit awards system, paid for by reddit users, updated 10/16/2018 – New tiers of Awards: Coins can now …
SCOTUS agreed to hear a case to Decide if Facebook-Twatter-Google-Youtube Tech Giants Can Censor Users!!!!! More: A Gateway Pundit June study of top conservative news outlets found that Facebook eliminated 93% of traffic to top conservative websites. Facebook began eliminating …
via thefreethoughtproject: A highly popular subreddit devoted to posting information which proposed information outside the official narrative to 9/11 has been “Quarantined” by the Reddit Administrators. The community has effectively been cut off from the rest of the platform and anyone …
Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship with the social media platform. Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in …
With Regulators Wary, Facebook Is Poring Over Its Prize Asset: Your Face When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities. “Face …
by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Imagine it’s the year 1960, and you’re an entrepreneur that’s about to launch the next big thing. Let’s assume that your product is actually pretty revolutionary, and that …
Image by iStock/jxfzsy ONCE MORE OUT OF THE BREACH: 92 million MyHeritage users had their data quietly swiped. “Company learned of the attack when a security researcher sent a data file.” Email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million MyHeritage …
by DCG As I have said before, the UK is toast. From Express UK: DavidGauke has claimed that “middle class dinner parties” are to blame for the recent surge in knife crime across the capital (London). He told Sky News during a wide-ranging interview that wealthy cocaine users should …
Facebook actually put *fake red dots* to try and make you think you have messages even if you don't, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read full complaint against Facebook: https://t.co/uI5fYairtK – with tricks like that, sorry Facebook, …
The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices. Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team first disclosed the existence …
Amazon’s latest patent aims to combine data from various sources to identify cryptocurrency users for subscribers including the taxman and cops. Amazon, the online retail and technology giant owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, won a patent in the US for …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xyKB5A3K4A Facebook says everyone’s collecting information users, not just them http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/…
The internet has just become about spying on people. I never signed Facebook’s TOS, how come they get to spy on me. How can that be legal? SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Concern about Facebook Inc’s respect for data privacy …
by Ruby Henley Zuckerberg’s testimony does not address fully that Obama’s reelection campaign scraped data from users who downloaded the Obama 2012 app, and from those users’ friends. The users’ friends did not give consent – these people were simply …
Extending features to executives and not end users is not, per se, the most egregious action FB has taken in recent years. That said, allowing only Executives to whitewash their chat history from the inbox of other users seems a …
Honestly, you can barely even find the video if you search for it in the search bar. Try it. It’s the #1 trending video on Youtube and when you search for it by its title, it does not appear when …
Facebook: "This is their information. They own it"BBC: "And you won’t sell it?"FB: "No! Of course not." Please help this 2009 interview of Facebook's CEO get seen by people who don't use Twitter. Here's a download link so you can …
by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market EDITOR’S NOTE: I have been warning readers about the complete lack of anonymity in Bitcoin and ANY other crypto system that uses the internet as a trade medium for years. In that time I have witnessed some highly aggressive …
by AssuredlyAThrowAway In a very strange turn of events earlier this week, the admins of reddit were forced to intervene on a hate subreddit after it was discovered the users thereof had engaged in a conspiracy to doctor screenshots with the intention …