Facebook’s threat to sue Guardian journalists to keep a privacy exposé about Cambridge Analytica buried was “not our wisest move,” the social network’s point person to the news industry says. “If it were me I would have probably not threatened to sue The Guardian,” Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Thursday at the …
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How many clicks does it take to keep your Facebook data private? That was the question I set out to answer when I created a Facebook account on Wednesday. Specifically, I wanted to discover what it takes to stop my Facebook friends from sharing data from my account (created under the alias Lauren Mapala, because I’d make a terrible spy). …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Would quitting be the right thing to do? NurPhoto He twitched and he strained. He tried to stick to the script given him by his PR and legal handlers, even making his first remarks almost identical to the statement he’d published earlier on Facebook. He …
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You have a gambling addiction. A pretty serious one, actually. You rise each day and take a trip to Mark Zuckerberg’s bustling casino. You arrive, hoping you might see familiar faces, but all the other gamblers are people you don’t give a crap about. You shrug and head to a slot machine. You crank the lever for the thousandth time, …
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Millions of US voters had their Facebook data exploited by consultants working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to news reports this weekend. But the fallout from the revelations extends far and wide beyond US borders. The EU will investigate whether the privacy rights of European citizens have been violated by social media companies that may have shared their data …
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