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  1. President Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey; discussed the 2020 election, efforts to stop opioid abuse, and more

    Thursday, April 25, 2019 · 9:59 am · 9 Comments

    President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House…

  2. Twitter finally reveals its number of daily users: 126 million

    Thursday, February 7, 2019 · 9:55 am · 3 Comments

    For years, Twitter has been asking investors to judge the company by looking at user growth…

  3. U.S. regulators sue Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal

    Wednesday, December 19, 2018 · 10:06 pm · 1 Comment

    Nine months after a whistleblower revealed Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information…

  4. For years, Facebook gave other tech firms more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed

    Wednesday, December 19, 2018 · 9:15 am · 11 Comments

    Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages…

  5. Walt Mossberg quits Facebook

    Tuesday, December 18, 2018 · 2:01 pm · 10 Comments

    Walt Mossberg is far from alone in giving up on Facebook…

  6. Ping! Apple Music Connect to shut down in 2019

    Thursday, December 13, 2018 · 5:34 pm · 5 Comments

    Apple Music Connect appears to slowly be going the way of iTunes Ping…

  7. Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic

    Friday, October 19, 2018 · 9:30 am · 8 Comments

    Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…

  8. Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs

    Wednesday, October 17, 2018 · 5:00 pm · 5 Comments

    The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…

  9. Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government

    Monday, October 15, 2018 · 10:28 am · 3 Comments

    Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…

  10. FBI investigating Facebook security breach where attackers accessed 30 million users’ personal information

    Friday, October 12, 2018 · 6:02 pm · 12 Comments

    Facebook revealed on Friday that a previously announced security breach on its platform…

  11. Facebook discovers security breach affecting 50 million users

    Friday, September 28, 2018 · 1:45 pm · 5 Comments

    Facebook Inc. has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts…

  12. Facebook is giving advertisers access to users’ shadow contact information

    Thursday, September 27, 2018 · 4:28 pm · 6 Comments

    Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor…

  13. 42% of U.S. users have ‘taken a break’ from Facebook; 28% have deleted the Facebook app in the past year

    Wednesday, September 5, 2018 · 10:28 am · 12 Comments

    Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship…

  14. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’

    Monday, August 20, 2018 · 9:28 am · 44 Comments

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he ‘fully admit[s]’ Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias…

  15. Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall

    Thursday, July 26, 2018 · 3:01 pm · 25 Comments

    Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…

  16. Facebook stock plunges as users vanish

    Wednesday, July 25, 2018 · 6:52 pm · 21 Comments

    Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…

  17. Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy

    Monday, June 25, 2018 · 5:01 pm · 1 Comment

    Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..

  18. 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

    Tuesday, June 12, 2018 · 5:03 pm · 13 Comments

    The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…

  19. Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook

    Thursday, June 7, 2018 · 4:50 pm · 11 Comments

    In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…

  20. Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies

    Wednesday, June 6, 2018 · 6:00 pm · 10 Comments

    Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…

  21. Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy

    Wednesday, June 6, 2018 · 8:55 am · 2 Comments

    The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…

  22. Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation

    Tuesday, June 5, 2018 · 11:28 am · 5 Comments

    Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…

  23. Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook

    Tuesday, June 5, 2018 · 10:27 am · 7 Comments

    “We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…

  24. Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’

    Tuesday, June 5, 2018 · 9:58 am · 14 Comments

    Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…

  25. Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung

    Monday, June 4, 2018 · 9:30 am · 19 Comments

    Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…