Mumbai: Facebook on Thursday announced partnerships with top music labels like T-Series Music, Zee Music Company and Yash Raj Films in India that will let users express themselves with music in their posts on its platform as well as on Instagram. With the partnerships with T-Series Music, Zee Music Company and[Read More…]
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Facebook denies cyber attack as Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger suffer outage
New Delhi: Facebook ruled out a cyber attack on its products Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger, which suffered service outage for hours on Wednesday. Users across the globe experienced problems sending messages on Facebook’s messaging apps Messenger and Whatsapp. The social networking giant’s image-sharing website Instagram also suffered service disruptions. After[Read More…]
EC directs Facebook to remove Abhinandan Varthaman’s photo shared by BJP MLA OP Sharma
On March 1, The Delhi MLA has shared the two posters on Facebook
Know how to go live on Facebook and other details
So to make most of this trending feature, here’s the whole guide how to go live on Facebook
Facebook removes ads by US Senator Elizabeth Warren, restores later
San Francisco: Facebook removed several ads placed by US Senator and Democratic candidate for President Elizabeth Warren on its platform that called for breaking up tech giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook. According to a report in Politico news on Monday, Facebook later said it has restored the ads that[Read More…]
Apps still sharing user data with Facebook without user-consent: Report
San Francisco: Major Android apps such as search service Yelp and language learning platform Duolingo are still sending personal data, without user consent, to Facebook for ad tracking, despite the backlash the social media giant faced on charges of collecting data by bribing teenagers in India and the US. Two[Read More…]
Facebook to impart digital training to 1 mn in Asia Pacific
Singapore: In a bid to train one million people across eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Facebook has introduced an online education portal called “We Think Digital”. The portal with interactive tutorials is aimed at helping people think critically and share thoughtfully online. The initiative would cover topics[Read More…]
Facebook security feature revealed users’ phone number to others
San Francisco: Facebook is facing backlash over its secure login process two-factor authentication (2FA) where it asked users to add phone numbers, which can be searched by advertisers. The security feature — meant solely to authenticate your identity on the social media platform – may have left your phone number[Read More…]
Facebook, Apple, Twitter face EU probes for violating GDPR
San Francisco: Facebook is facing 10 probes for violating the European Union’s (EU) new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) over data breaches and users’ privacy across its platforms. In its first annual report after GDPR came into practice on May 25, 2018, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened 15[Read More…]
Facebook sues China-based companies over fake accounts
San Francisco: Facebook has sued four companies and three people based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers on its platform as well as its photo-sharing service, Instagram. According to the Facebook lawsuit filed in a US federal court, these firms and people did the[Read More…]
Facebook, Telegram working on their own cryptocurrencies
New York: More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant’s own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite bullish on the project. Not only Facebook, highly-encrypted mobile communications apps Telegram and Signal are also on the job to roll out new cryptocurrencies[Read More…]
Facebook not sharing key disinformation data with EU: Report
London: As the European Parliament election inch closer, the European Commission has claimed Facebook is withholding key data on its efforts towards how the platform is rooting out the spread of poll-related disinformation. According to a report in The Guardian on Thursday, the European Commission has complained that Facebook has[Read More…]
Facebook’s internal conversations, memos leaked online
San Francisco: Internal conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company executives were leaked online that contained a highly confidential 2012 memo detailing several policy matters. “About 60 pages of un-redacted exhibits from a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, an app developer, were posted anonymously on GitHub,” the Guardian[Read More…]
Facebook improves location settings, adds new privacy control on Android
San Francisco: Facebook is adding a new privacy control feature to its Android app that will allow users to block the app from collecting and saving their background location information. “We’re introducing a new background location control on Facebook for Android so people can choose if they want us to[Read More…]
US lawmakers question Facebook on privacy of health groups
San Francisco: A day after Facebook was accused of exposing sensitive health data of its users in “closed” groups, US lawmakers have written a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to brief them about the latest privacy concerns. A complaint filed by a security researcher and others with the[Read More…]
Facebook intends to develop its own AI chips: Report
San Francisco: Facebook intends to develop its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips to facilitate faster computing needed to achieve new AI breakthroughs like digital assistants with common sense, said a media report. In an interview with The Financial Times, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun indicated that the social networking[Read More…]
Facebook tracking users who threaten its workers: Report
San Francisco: Facebook has been monitoring and tracking locations of those users who can pose threat to its employees or physical properties, the media reported. According to a report in CNBC on Thursday, the tracking of users begins when the Facebook security team finds they are making “credible threats on[Read More…]
Facebook negotiating multi-billion dollar fine with US Federal Trade Commission: Report
Washington: Facebook is negotiating a multi-billion dollar fine with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the social media giant’s past privacy practices. According to a report in The Washington Post on Thursday, the specific amount is yet to be determined but it would be the largest fine the FTC[Read More…]
Russia to direct Facebook, Twitter to localise users’ database
Moscow: Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has said that it will punish Twitter and Facebook if they decline to move the database of Russian users to Russia. “The companies will either have to localise the databases within a certain period of time, which I suppose will be about nine months, or[Read More…]
Finding love on Facebook costs over 10 Lakh to a woman
The accused sent a friend request to the woman in January.
Facebook junks ‘LOL’ app for children
San Francisco: Facing the flak from lawmakers and experts, Facebook has decided not to build a new app called “LOL” to let children share and post humorous meme content. Instead, the social media giant said it would focus more on its “Messenger Kids” aimed at those under 13 years of[Read More…]
WhatsApp removing 2 mn suspicious accounts a month
New Delhi, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is removing at least two million accounts each month for bulk or automated behaviour and over 75 per cent of those without recent user reports. According to the company, these efforts are particularly important during elections where certain groups may attempt to send messages at scale.[Read More…]
Facebook rolls out ‘unsend’ feature on Messenger
San Francisco, Social networking giant Facebook has released the “unsend” feature on its messaging app Messenger that would allow users to delete messages from the chat-thread within 10 minutes of sending it. “Facebook tells the new feature will be available today on the latest versions of Messenger for iOS and[Read More…]
Angela Merkel shutting down her Facebook page
London, Giving another clue Angela Merkel is in the final phase of her political career, the German Chancellor has announced she is closing down her Facebook page which has more than 2.5 million followers. Merkel, who handed the leadership of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in December,[Read More…]
Key fact-checkers stop working with Facebook
San Francisco, Two leading fact-checking agencies have ended their partnerships with Facebook, striking a significant blow to the network’s efforts to fight fake news, media reports said. The social network had paid the Associated Press and Snopes to combat its misinformation crisis. But both confirmed they stopped checking articles at[Read More…]