Facebook planning to pay users for deactivating accounts before 2020 US Elections
To curb the spread of misinformation and also to know how social media will impact the democracy during elections, Facebook has urged its users to deactivate their accounts for 1-6 weeks for which it is ready to pay anything between $10- $20 on a weekly basis. The deactivation is been targeted during the 2020 US […]
Apple iOS 14 restricts Facebook from targeting personalized ads
Apple seems to have taken data privacy a lot more serious in its upcoming version of iOS 14 as Facebook argues that the privacy features in its new OS will prevent it from tracking the user’s online activities and targeting them with relevant ads. The World’s leading social media giant claims that its ad revenue […]
United States conducting ‘Mass Surveillance’ through Google
According to a survey conducted by an email firm ProtonMail, the government of the United States is reported to be using technology firms like Google and Facebook to conduct mass surveillance from the last decade or so. Now evidence is out that the data requests put forward by the government to Google are said to […]
Facebook to ask for ID Proof to stop the spread of fake news
For one year, the social media giant Facebook(FB) has been asking its users to submit some sort of ID proofs to prove their identity of existence. And this includes submission of any of the following identification proofs like green cards, passport numbers, license, bank statement, social security number, medical insurance number, driver’s license, Tribal identification […]
Hackers selling stolen data on Facebook and Twitter
Which?, the UK based consumer group has discovered in its recent survey that hackers and scammers are seen selling stolen digital personal & financial details on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The data which is being sold includes credit card details, compromised credentials of Netflix, and Uber eats user accounts, […]
China starts attacking Trump for Coronavirus outbreak with fake Facebook ads
China has started to pin the blame on US President Donald Trump by creating fake Facebook (FB) ads which blamed the 73-year old president for the outbreak of Novel COVID 19. After listening to a lot from the world that the country started a bio war by developing Corona Virus in the labs of Wuhan […]
Facebook dragged to court by Australia over data privacy
Australian data watchdog has dragged Facebook to court for allegedly sharing personal details of more than 300,000 people with the controversial, now defunct form Cambridge Analytica. Australian Information Commissioner has given the social media a specified time frame to respond to its federal lawsuit and if Mark Zuckerberg’s led company fails to respond, there is […]
Artificial Intelligence helps Facebook takedown 6.5 billion fake accounts
Facebook(FB), the social media giant of the world has announced that it has taken the help of Artificial Intelligence technology to fight fake accounts. In fact, in a recent report released by the Mark Zuckerberg led company said that its newly developed Machine Learning tools have made it’s digital blue-pencil teams takedown over 6.5 billion […]
Facebook acquires AI startup Scape Technologies
Facebook, the world’s largest social media giant is reported to have acquired a London based AI startup named Scape Technologies in Dec’2019. Financial details of the deal are yet to be disclosed, but trade analysts say that the Computer Vision Startup could have made a whopping $40 million with the deal. Technically speaking, Scape Technologies […]
Over 267 Million Facebook IDs exposed
Facebook is back in Google news trends and that is for another data expose of over 267 million Facebook Ids, names, and phone numbers- mainly Americans. Cybersecurity firm Comparitech has discovered in its research that an unsecured database was holding data of more than 267 million Facebook(FB) users- out of which 180m were of Americans. […]
