Facebook on Wednesday announced changes to keep the Groups feature free from “harmful content” by increasing the penalties against…
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Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
Delete your Facebook: The only way to win the social game is not to play
Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company Cambrige Analytica…
How you access the super creepy data that Facebook has on you
Don’t be fooled by the ‘bring the world closer together’ motto: if Facebook’s here, it’s only to make money by selling ads…
Facebook asks users: Should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook whether pedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
Study: Facebook is for old people
Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year…
Mark Zuckerberg is fighting to save Facebook; announces major change to News Feed
On Thursday, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed, its central feature…
Facebook developing ‘Portal’ gadget which will let it put microphones and cameras in people’s homes
The oppressive rulers of Oceania used devices called telescreens to closely monitor and repress citizens…
Apple CEO Cook: ‘Fake news’ is ‘killing people’s minds’
Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news…
Samsung warns ‘SmartTV’ users not to discuss personal info in front of their eavesdropping TVs
The potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive…
Apple co-founder Woz and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee voice support for Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
Rand Paul: ‘What you do on your cellphone is none of their damned business!’
Paul put his concerns about the NSA on front pages with a class-action lawsuit…
Orwellian: UK government, with aid from US NSA, intercepted webcam images from millions of users
Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency…
