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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 delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you
Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…
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…
WSJ tries really hard to gin up negative Apple news and fails laughably
The licensing fees that Google-parent Alphabet Inc. pays to Apple Inc. to direct traffic to its search business…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google’s Android, AdSense is advancing
Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system…
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…
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
A businessman fighting for the ‘right to be forgotten’ has won a UK High Court action against Google…
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…
Facebook to warn 87 million users that their data ‘may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica’
Facebook will warn these users with a notice atop the News Feed with information about what data of theirs might have been attained…
Mark Zuckerberg and the never-ending stench of Facebook
How do we trust Facebook’s public stances on what they will or won’t do to censor speech, content, or connections with which they don’t agree?
Apple may be the biggest winner from Facebook’s data scandal
In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook penned a missive regarding Apple’s approach to privacy….
Mark Zuckerberg blasts Apple CEO Cook’s criticism of Facebook as ‘extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected Apple CEO Tim Cook’s critique of his company’s business model…
Bad news for those who want Facebook listening in their homes: Facebook delays smart speaker debut amid data privacy scandal
The fallout from Facebook Inc.’s data privacy scandal is spreading…
Apple CEO Cook: Facebook should have self-regulated, but it’s too late for that now
Apple CEO Tim Cook has doubled down on his call for regulation that would limit Facebook…
U.S. FTC will investigate Facebook over privacy or lack thereof
The Federal Trade Commission has an open investigation into Facebook’s growing privacy scandal…
Apple CEO Cook calls for more data oversight, ‘well-crafted regulation’ after Facebook debacle
Executives from Apple Inc and IBM Corp have called for more oversight on how personal data is used…
