Facebook pay, a new payment service will let anyone send or receive money without fees. At the same time, Facebook mentioned that payment data across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger can be used for ads. So, you should pay with your data to use it. The service…
Facebook announced it would not remove political ads before the UK’s General Election. The decision comes although there were complaints that the Conservative Party is trying to influence users with misleading information.
Twitter announced plans to ban political…
Facebook announced it will limit the number of ads run by a page at any time. Evan Klein, software engineer at Facebook, explained in a post what will happen. “In mid 2020, we are implementing a limit on the number of ads each Page can run at the same time. The ad limits…
Facebook decided to pay hackers in the expansion of its bug bounty program. This is a way to enhance the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform, as Facebook users’ data that had been misused was exposed mainly as the result of a…
Facebook announced it suspended tens of thousands of apps, as a result of its App Developer Investigation, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Last year it was revealed that the political consultancy managed to obtain the personal data of over 50 million Facebook app…
The company announced that the facial recognition feature is now available for all its users. Still, the social media giant mentioned it would keep its capabilities turned off by default. Facebook previously called the feature “tag suggestions.” The platform used face…
Users from three countries to control personal data shared by other websites and apps with Facebook
August 20, 2019
Facebook’s policies changed to allow users see and control the data other websites and apps share with the social network, in order to improve targeted advertising.
Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, and David Baser, Director of Product Management published this…
Federal Trade Commission announced that Facebook will pay a $5 billion fine, the largest ever levied by the Commission against a technology company.
According to Reuters, the fine was approved to settle the investigation into Facebook’s privacy violations after the…
An investigation was started by the British Competition and Markets Authority into the power wielded by Facebook and Google in digital advertising markets, including the ownership of data, according to Reuters.
The authorities want to reveal how much influence the platforms…
The company owned by Mark Zuckerberg admitted to having stored passwords of millions of Instagram users.
The plaintext passwords for millions of Instagram users, along with millions of Facebook users, were accessible to some of the Facebook engineers, who according to the…
