Facebook pledged to remove race, health conditions, and political affiliation from ad-targeting options, but The Markup found advertisers can still easily target the same people.
You may have taken the step this year to delete Facebook, but your information could still be in their hands in the form of shadow profiles.
I’ve noticed that no matter what side of the aisle people stand on, they are concerned with Google, Facebook, and others invading their privacy.
The watchdog group “The Competition and Markets Authority” believes that data collected by Facebook benefits its Marketplace business and puts other similar services at a disadvantage.
Business Insider reports that 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online. The report says that this personal data was leaked on a “low-level” hacking forum and posted for all to see.
The terms of service (ToS) put in place by Facebook ensure they can collect troves of data from their users and use it as they see fit.
While the company’s Off-Facebook Activity tool isn’t exactly new (it was introduced back in August of last year), it is now available to Facebook users around the world.
If you’re new to Messenger, you’ll notice that you need a Facebook account to chat with friends and close connections,” a spokesperson said via email.”
This is a pretty significant ruling and could spark some worldwide debate. As is expected, the laws in the European Union are not the same as the laws in other countries.
Companies like Facebook and Google often build in towns like this for the tax breaks and lower costs of doing business.
While The Horn isn’t the first alternative to Facebook (check MeWe, Minds, and Mastodon — to name a few), it is sort of a different take.
Before and since the Cambridge Analytica situation there have been multiple privacy and data leaks which are seriously tarnishing the company’s reputation.
Yesterday we reported that CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was making deals with app developers and 3rd parties in exchange for user data. According to … Read more…
Mark Zuckerberg made a lengthy blog post outlining how Facebook would be pivoting the platform to concentrate on user privacy.
Online privacy is becoming a bigger issue to internet users and large internet companies are starting to realize and address their concerns. Facebook privacy was … Read more…
