This is Palmer Luckey. You might have heard his name earlier today, when Sen. Ted Cruz asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his grilling by Congress why he fired Luckey last year. Zuckerberg said he wasn’t fired for his political views. It was kind of a weird question, for three reasons: Zuckerberg was there to …
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Facebook’s failure to properly protect user data might have spawned headlines the world over, but Americans are not totally shocked by the revelations, according to a poll by CBS News. That doesn’t mean they’re letting the social network off the hook, though. Poll respondents think the company’s response to the scandal, triggered by revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s access to the …
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Here’s what we’re talking about in this podcast: Facebook starts telling its users if they were affected by the Cambridge Analytica breach. Plus, on Tuesday and Wednesday CEO Mark Zuckerberg will give testimony to Congress about the scandal. Oregon passes a law to protect net neutrality rules. Verizon reports that ransomware attacks doubled in 2017. Now playing: Watch this: …
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Facebook on Monday began alerting users whose data was accessed by Cambridge Analytics with a popup at the top of the News Feed. But as is usually the case with all things Facebook, the alert is slowly being rolled out to impacted users. Instead of refreshing your News Feed countless times to try and trigger the alert, here’s how you …
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Facebook has talked to special prosecutor Robert Mueller, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill. During questioning by Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, Zuckerberg said that someone at his company has spoken with Mueller, though he himself hasn’t. He declined to give more information, saying he wasn’t sure what he could share in an …
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Facebook was hit with another lawsuit over data misuse on Tuesday. Facebook and Cambridge Analytica were hit with another lawsuit, this one filed on behalf of users of the social network from the US and the UK. Getty Lawyers in the US and the UK filed the suit in the US District Court in Delaware against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and …
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A law firm on Monday filed another lawsuit against Facebook for failing to protect consumer data. The suit, following a similar case last week, was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. It accuses Facebook of “unjust enrichment and violation of privacy and consumer-protection laws when it permitted app developers and other …
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Facebook last week said it would support efforts to regulate political ads. Now US senators are urging Alphabet and Twitter to do the same. The Honest Ads Act is a senate bill that would require tech companies to disclose how political ads were targeted and how much they cost. It’s sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and …
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Snapchat Lenses just got better for iPhone X users The newest version of the Snapchat app for iOS utilizes the iPhone X TrueDepth camera to make the real-time Lens selfies — which can be anything from virtual facepainting to cat whiskers to masquerade masks (shown here) — more realistic than ever, thanks to improved shading, motion tracking and bokeh (blurred …
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After admitting that Facebook deletes messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg without telling users, the social network now says that it will add the feature for all users, TechCrunch reported. In the future, you’ll be able to delete your messages from other peoples’ inboxes. Josh Miller/CNET Messages sent from Zuckerberg were discovered to disappear after a certain length of time. While …
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