Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
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Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
California’s data privacy law highlights growing frustration with tech industry
Driven by everything from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandals…
‘Valley of Genius’ author reveals the biggest secrets about Steve Jobs’ life and death
The pioneers behind some of the world’s most influential technology companies might not be the lovable nerds…
Privacy on Facebook and Google is ‘like holding a gun to your head’
Vesselin Popov and his team at the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre have found themselves embroiled…
Facebook and Apple disagree on how to curb ‘fake news’ for U.S. Midterms
Last week, Apple launched a human-curated political news section to help readers steer clear of falsehoods…
Apple App Stores all-time top game has generated $4 billion in revenue so far
Just ahead of the iOS App Store’s 10th anniversary this month, application market research firm App Annie…
More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
California lawmakers approve data-privacy bill despite opposition from Google, Facebook, advertisers
California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed data privacy legislation aimed at giving consumers more control…
Pew Research survey: Majority of Americans believe social media platforms censor political views
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the power of digital technology companies and the way they do business,…
Apple News’ plan for the 2018 midterms: Be the opposite of Facebook
Apple yesterday announced a special section in its News app devoted to 2018 midterm election coverage…
Apple CEO Cook talks leadership, social issues at ‘CEO Initiative’ series
Apple CEO Tim Cook is unafraid to speak his mind on issues ranging from data privacy and immigration…
Facebook patents show it can predict when you’ll get married, change jobs, and die
Facebook has been widely recognized for the extreme lengths it takes to collect data on its users…
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..
U.S. FTC to examine tech platforms like Google and Facebook as major part of competition review via public hearings
The Federal Trade Commission will examine the questions surrounding powerful tech platforms like Google and Facebook…
LG admits: iPhone loyalists are driving us crazy
If you’re capable of sympathy, can you spare some for Android manufacturers?
Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…
Apple’s App Store privacy crackdown may hurt Facebook’s Onavo app
Apple Inc.’s new rules for app developers limit their ability to harvest user contact data…
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’s macOS Mojave removes integration with third-party internet accounts like Facebook
Dropping support for third-party social network accounts fits into Apple’s vision of enhanced privacy protections…
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…
Amazon, Facebook and Google tiptoe toward monopoly, but not Apple
Imagine a not-too-distant future in which trustbusters force Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp…
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…
Share buyback boom remains in overdrive after President Trump’s tax cuts
The stock buyback boom continued apace with U.S. companies announcing $6.1 billion of buybacks a day…
Here’s what Apple sent when I asked for all the data they had on me
Last week, I asked Apple to give me all the data it’s collected on me since I first became a customer…
Apple CEO Cook continues hammering Facebook over privacy violations
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook delivered more than a commencement speech at Duke University on Sunday…
Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
Cramer: Apple’s, Amazon’s, and Facebook’s quarters kickstarted this market rally
One month ago, the market looked to CNBC’s Jim Cramer like it was riddled with fear and volatility…
Another day, another reason to never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to Android
Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform by a landslide…
Zuckerberg vs. Cook is more than just Facebook vs. Apple
For over a century, ads were the driving force behind newspapers and magazines, and then TV…
Yet another reason I’ll never downgrade from Apple’s iPhone to an Android phone,
For a period of time, I almost always carried an Android phone with me in addition to my main iPhone…
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…
Americans place Apple distant third behind Amazon and Google in ‘positive impact on society’ survey
Some 20 percent of Americans believe Amazon is having the most positive impact on society…
EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google’s Android, AdSense is advancing
Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system…
