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U.S. states plan to sue Facebook over antitrust violations next week

Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:38 am4 Comments

A group of U.S. states is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit against the social media giant…

Jeff Bezos’ hacked iPhone had Apple’s vaunted security, and that may have helped its alleged hackers

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:04 pm26 Comments

A security report last week alleged that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received a WhatsApp message laden with code that secretly hacked…

Facebook’s WhatsApp blamed for Jeff Bezos’ iPhone hack

Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:30 amThursday, January 23, 202011 Comments

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ iPhone may have been hacked after he received a message via Facebook’s WhatsApp, from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince…

Private messaging apps ‘scrambling’ to overhaul software following Apple privacy changes

Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:03 pm1 Comment

With iOS 13, Apple introduced a change that limits data collection practices using VoIP APIs….

FTC chairman says he’s willing to break up Big Tech companies

Wednesday, August 14, 2019 9:30 amWednesday, August 14, 201922 Comments

The head of the US Federal Trade Commission said he’s prepared to break up major technology platforms if necessary…


Apple to restrict Facebook’s messaging apps VoIP feature

Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:34 amNo Comments

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

Friday, July 19, 2019 10:26 amFriday, July 19, 20197 Comments

The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data…

Apple condemns British spy agency group’s proposal to destroy message encryption

Thursday, May 30, 2019 9:11 am5 Comments

Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp have co-signed an open letter urging the UK government…

It’s almost impossible to tell if your iPhone has been hacked

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 4:34 pm6 Comments

Hackers have been breaking into iPhones allegedly using a powerful spy tool sold to governments…

Facebook launches WhatsApp Business for iOS

Friday, April 5, 2019 8:51 amFriday, April 5, 20196 Comments

Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a business version of its WhatsApp messaging app for Apple Inc’s iOS..

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton renews call for users to delete Facebook

Monday, March 18, 2019 9:52 am7 Comments

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook, but…

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

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:58 amTuesday, June 5, 201814 Comments

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

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

Monday, June 4, 2018 9:30 amMonday, June 4, 201819 Comments

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

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:35 pmWednesday, May 23, 201818 Comments

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

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:30 amFriday, May 4, 20183 Comments

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

Friday, May 4, 2018 11:01 amFriday, May 4, 201816 Comments

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

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:32 pmWednesday, May 2, 201814 Comments

Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…

Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 3:27 pmWednesday, April 18, 201811 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:12 pmTuesday, April 17, 201819 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:44 pmTuesday, April 17, 20186 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 11:28 amTuesday, April 17, 201812 Comments

Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…

Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers

Monday, April 16, 2018 3:32 pm10 Comments

Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…

Why there shouldn’t be a ‘next Facebook’

Friday, April 13, 2018 3:24 pmSaturday, April 14, 201816 Comments

Social media networks are like cigarettes…

Zuckerberg admits Facebook collects data on non-users

Thursday, April 12, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, April 12, 201819 Comments

We’ve already learned quite a bit from Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill….

Facebook is lying about your data

Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:56 pm14 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress testimony following the Cambridge Analytica breach…

Apple co-founder Woz deactivates Facebook account

Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:59 amThursday, April 12, 20188 Comments

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has quit Facebook…

How Facebook lets brands and politicians target users

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:01 pmWednesday, April 11, 20188 Comments

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

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:34 amWednesday, April 11, 201815 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

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 5:51 pm5 Comments

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’

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 3:03 pmTuesday, April 10, 201822 Comments

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?

Monday, April 9, 2018 12:06 pm40 Comments

Recently, Tim Cook gave multiple interviews on Apple’s commitment to protecting their privacy…

Apple co-founder Woz quits Facebook

Monday, April 9, 2018 10:05 amMonday, April 9, 201817 Comments

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 4:50 pm33 Comments

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’

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 3:28 pmWednesday, April 4, 201810 Comments

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

Monday, April 2, 2018 1:30 pmMonday, April 2, 201810 Comments

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

Monday, April 2, 2018 1:02 pmMonday, April 2, 20182 Comments

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’

Monday, April 2, 2018 8:56 amMonday, April 2, 201826 Comments

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

Thursday, March 29, 2018 9:58 amThursday, March 29, 201810 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:50 pmWednesday, March 28, 201813 Comments

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

Monday, March 26, 2018 3:27 pm4 Comments

The Federal Trade Commission has an open investigation into Facebook’s growing privacy scandal…

Apple to prevent Siri from reading hidden notifications on lock screen in upcoming update

Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:00 pmThursday, March 22, 2018No Comments

Apple has confirmed it will fix a privacy issue in which Siri can read aloud hidden lock screen notifications…

Oops! Siri will read hidden lock screen notifications from third-party apps to anyone

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:55 pmWednesday, March 21, 20189 Comments

As of iOS 11, you can set message notifications to be hidden on your Lock screen…

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