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Apple to restrict Facebook’s messaging apps VoIP feature
Apple Inc is making a change to its mobile operating system that will restrict a feature that apps like Facebook Inc’s Messenger and WhatsApp…
NSO Group says it can scrape data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft cloud services
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data…
Apple reportedly to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS
Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…
Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…
Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook
“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…
Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’
Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…
Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung
Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…
How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac
With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
Google’s ‘Chat’ is not end-to-end encrypted like Apple’s iMessage
Google has been quietly corralling every major cellphone carrier on the planet into adopting technology to replace SMS…
Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data
Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…
Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent
Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…
I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…
Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers
Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…
Why there shouldn’t be a ‘next Facebook’
Social media networks are like cigarettes…
Zuckerberg admits Facebook collects data on non-users
We’ve already learned quite a bit from Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill….
Facebook is lying about your data
Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress testimony following the Cambridge Analytica breach…
Apple co-founder Woz deactivates Facebook account
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has quit Facebook…
How Facebook lets brands and politicians target users
When Facebook introduced its ad platform in 2007, advertisers could target people using information they had volunteered…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg was ready to slam Apple if Congress asked him about Tim Cook’s privacy comments
It started when Cook was asked what he would do if he were faced with the problems facing Facebook…
How to remove your Facebook data from macOS
Whether you’re planning on keeping your Facebook account, are debating deleting it, or already have…
Apple CEO Cook: ‘Privacy to us is a human right… a civil liberty’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington D.C. Tuesday to testify before Congress about customer privacy…
Should Apple create a social network that doesn’t abuse, but protects user privacy?
Recently, Tim Cook gave multiple interviews on Apple’s commitment to protecting their privacy…
Apple co-founder Woz quits Facebook
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said he’s leaving Facebook amid concerns about privacy and data violations…
Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans the contents of all private Messenger texts
Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app…
In bid to curtail ‘revenge porn,’ Facebook wants you to send your own nude images via Messenger
If you’ve had a nude photo taken, you might be nervous about where it could end up…
Why would Amazon want to get into messaging?
There’s a tendency to give Amazon.com the benefit of the doubt whenever it looks to enter any new market…
Amazon looks to go after messaging with ‘Anytime’ stand-alone app and service
Amazon’s materials claim: “Works everywhere. Chat seamlessly across desktop and mobile, iPhone or Android.”
Apple’s Messages’ blue bubble keeps me firmly on iPhone
Samsung’s Galaxy S8, like all Android phones, lacks a tiny blue-bubbled wonder: iMessage…
Apple Music is coming to Facebook Messenger
Apple will be introducing an Apple Music chat extension to Facebook Messenger…
Messages and five other apps Apple really needs to make for Android
Android and iOS may be destined to do battle forever, but when it comes to apps…
