Facebook recently announced that it will be including a third category in its bug bounty program which will focus on data misuse by third party apps on its platform. According to Facebook's vice president of product partnerships Ime Archibong, developers and apps that misuse personally-identifiable information...
Facebook announced last Wednesday that it will be redesigning the settings menu on its platform to give users more control over their privacy. The company also promised to make changes to its terms of service and data policy that will give users a better understanding...
A recent study by Dell EMC found that Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong handed down the biggest data breach fines in the region, while Japan, India, and Thailand had some of the lowest. Singapore’s penalties can going as high as $1 million for non-compliance with...
Last Tuesday, Tennessee Republican representative Marsha Blackburn said that she would like to know that position of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on privacy standards for the whole ecosystem which includes ISPs and edge providers. Blackburn said that women in her state are increasingly getting concerned about...
Earlier this week, Mozilla announced that it has launched a new Firefox add-on called Facebook Container that can give users more control over what kind of data Facebook siphons. Facebook Container allows users to separate their Facebook identity from their web activity, preventing the social network...
The FTC recently announced that it will be looking into concerns on Facebook’s privacy practices, including a possible violation to a settlement in 2011. Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said that they will be acting against companies that fail to...
Tech website The Register recently noted that while the media is being set afire by the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Google had quietly been lobbying against calls for a “right to be forgotten” law in the US. It is said that tech lobbying firm NetChoice, which...
Last Friday, the Cook County of Illinois filed a lawsuit which argues that Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the SCL Group, its corporate parent, had violated Illinois laws against fraud. Cook County’s legal team also called Facebook the “largest data mining operation in existence” and accused the...
Earlier this week the New Zealand Tribunal said that the Crown had breached the Privacy Act by refusing Kim Dotcom’s request for all private information held about him. The Megaupload founder wrote to 28 Ministers of the Crown for the release of his private information in...
In the midst of its privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, Facebook had been questioned anew for pulling user call and text data from Android devices. A number of users have already reported discovering that Facebook kept a log of contact names, telephone numbers, call duration...