Last Wednesday at the hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Ben Lujan asked Mark Zuckerberg about “shadow profiles” which, according to privacy advocates, is information collected by Facebook on non-users. While Zuckerberg demurred and said that he did not know what a shadow...
As a response to the recent privacy scandal hounding its parent company, Instagram announced that it will be allowing users to download a copy of all the content they have uploaded to the platform. The feature, which is only currently available for Facebook, will be rolled...
Earlier this week, Facebook issued an official statement supporting the California Consumer Privacy Act, a measure that it had previously opposed. Chairman of Californians for Consumer Privacy Alastair Mactaggart responded by saying that they would want Facebook to work with them by providing public and financial...
Andrea Jelinek, EU data protection authorities group head, announced last Thursday that the recent scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica has prompted them to form a Social Media Working Group which will be looking into cases of social media data harvesting. Jelinek added that apologies from...
In a recent statement, Amazon denied recording customer’s voices and using them for ad targeting, reiterating that the company takes privacy seriously. Suspicions of possible eavesdropping circulated after it was reported that Amazon had filed a patent for a “voice-sniffing” technology that some feared would be...
In the recent joint session of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he does not believe legislation for the protection of children’s privacy on sites like Facebook will be necessary. This was in response to Sen. Ed Markey’s question asking...
Refuting reports from the South China Morning Post last week, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Tuesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016 election win did not rely on bought information and confirmed that his campaign team did not hire political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. The Chinese newspaper...
A local company called Istrathehiya Inc. recently confirmed that they had not worked with Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) and distanced itself from the embattled analytics firm, even though they are listed as one of its 12 offices worldwide. Istratehiya president Jed Eva...
Facebook shares went up 0.78% last Wednesday, in addition to a 4.5% increase the day before as CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood his ground at his first Congressional hearing which lasted for as long as 10 hours. The social network’s head emerged unscathed after deflecting questions from...
Analyst firm CB Insights reported that a Chinese startup SenseTime had received $600 million in a new round of funding this week, making it the most valuable AI startup in the world. The funding, led by Alibaba, has put SenseTime’s total valuation at around $4.5...