Ignorance may be bliss for Facebook‘s users. About 74 percent of adults in the US who use Facebook didn’t know the social network keeps a list of their interests and traits for ad targeting, says a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. About half of Facebook users said they weren’t comfortable that the …
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A German antitrust watchdog will order Facebook to stop gathering some user data, according to a report. The Federal Cartel Office, known locally as the Bundeskartellamt, is mainly concerned about the data sharing with apps and sites outside Facebook — including Twitter and the Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram, German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday. The group’s been investigating Facebook …
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In January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said he had a lot of work to do in 2018 if he wanted to fix Facebook. It seems that resolution will still be on the table in 2019. Scandal after scandal hit the social media giant this year. And now over 1,400 pages of leaked documents, obtained by The New York Times, has revealed …
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Facebook isn’t the same social network it used to be. A decade ago, status updates had to include the word “is.” Catching up with friends meant writing on their Facebook digital walls. Today’s social media couldn’t be more different. Users are sharing moments of their lives in vertical videos and photos that vanish in 24 hours through a feature called “Stories.” …
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Facebook on Wednesday said it was necessary to grant Spotify and Netflix special access to users’ private messages to enable integration of messaging features. The social media giant said in a blog post that experimental features no longer offered required granting read/write access to the companies. The blog post comes a day after The New York Times reported that Facebook …
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Facebook gave some of the tech industry’s biggest companies greater access to users’ personal data than the social-networking company previously disclosed, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Special arrangements detailed in internal Facebook documents gave Microsoft’s Bing search engine access to the names of all Facebook users’ friends without consent and allowed Netflix and Spotify to read Facebook users’ private …
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Facebook said Monday a promised privacy tool that will allow users to clear their browsing history on the social network is still in the works but isn’t expected to launch until next year. In May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced it was building a feature called “clear history” that would let users see what apps and websites they’ve interacted with …
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Facebook temporarily pulled down a post by a former employee who accused the tech firm of having “a black people problem,” a removal that didn’t escape the attention of its author. Mark Luckie, who left his job as Facebook’s strategic partner manager for global influencers, posted his note publicly on Nov. 27. The post accused Facebook of “failing its black …
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Facebook isn’t just a social network for posting vacation photos or cat videos. It’s a multibillion dollar ad business. On Wednesday, internal Facebook emails and documents released by UK lawmakers provided a rare glimpse into the methods the social network explored to make money from the user data it’s collected over the years from all of our activity on it. …
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Facebook’s annual developer conference will return next year to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on April 30 and May 1. The tech giant’s biggest event of the year features keynote speeches from Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “There will be networking opportunities, deep-dive sessions, and product demos, all showcasing how technology can enable the best of what people …
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