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Technology

Facebook Harvesting user data from heart rate, ovulation iOS apps

For now, we'll have to wait for a major announcement from Apple and Facebook to find out how to fully prevent these situations from happening again.

Feb 24, 2019

By Jerome Santos

Technology

Facebook is letting android users block location data tracking

Facebook will be adding new privacy controls to the Android app that will stop the social media giant from accessing users' locations when the app is closed.

Feb 21, 2019

By Kevin Billings

Society

Russia's RT Slams Facebook For Suspending Anti-US, Pro-Kremlin Viral Video Channels

Maffick Media isn't registered in the U.S. but has hired American contractors and freelancers to work on the closed-down websites.

Feb 20, 2019

By Arthur Villasanta

Crime

Singapore police receive over 40 reports of Facebook impersonation scams

Singapore Police Force advise people on how to deal with such scams and listed a few crime prevention measures.

Feb 16, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Singapore crime

Technology

Facebook Messenger: How to unsend a message

While the new messaging option might provide some relief for chronic misspellers, the feature's origin has much more to do with overall security than simple editing.

Feb 9, 2019

By J.E. Reich

Technology

WhatsApp update: Media forward shortcut option to make a comeback to soon

With forward shortcut feature, WhatsApp users can directly share pictures and messages from the chat session without having to traverse through the second layer of interface.

Feb 4, 2019

By Rohit KVN

Crime

Indian man arrested in US for bank and wire fraud worth $800,000 using Facebook

Kishore Babu Ammisetti had entered the US in 2013 on a student visa and was residing illegally in the country after his visa was revoked in 2014

Feb 2, 2019

By Vanilla Sharma

Technology

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger integration: What does it means for users?

Mark Zuckerberg revealed his big plans for all the popular messaging platforms owned by Facebook as it battles to distance itself from all the scandals.

Jan 27, 2019

By Sami Khan

Science

Move over drug addicts, Facebook users will now make those wrong decisions

A study showed that those who performed Iowa Gambling Task fairly better have less inclination to use social media.

Jan 12, 2019

By Soorya Kiran NN

Technology

Facebook app impossible to delete from samsung phones

Samsung and Facebook, both the companies have yet to release a statement addressing these problems.

Jan 11, 2019

By Jerome Santos

Samsung

Technology

These apps send data to Facebook without you hnowing it

Facebook has been in hot water since early last year when it was revealed that the company exposed data of around 87 million users to a Cambridge Analytica researcher.

Jan 2, 2019

By Corazon Victorino

Business

Facebook India posts 52% jump in revenues at Rs 521 crore; profit soars 40% amid low-cost data

Notably, Facebook's total revenue surged 53 per cent in India which also represents the money it earned through Whatsapp.

Dec 26, 2018

By Ashish Shukla

Thailand: Internet users who even view 'illegal content' to face legal action

CyberSecurity

Facebook gave Netflix, Airbnb special access to user data, secret documents reveal

The documents released by a British Parliamentary Committee disclosed agreements between the social media giant and select companies, allowing them access user data.

Dec 6, 2018

By Nandita Natrajkumar

Netflix

Technology

Facebook successfully recovers from global outage; But why it went down?

Social media platforms Facebook and its subsidiary services WhatsApp and Instagram were down more than half hour across several parts of the world.

Nov 21, 2018

By Rohit KVN

Technology

Facebook deleted more than 1.5 billion fake accounts amid increasing govt data requests

For the first time, Facebook has increased scrutiny on the social media platform to curb bullying and online harassment.

Nov 18, 2018

By Rohit KVN

Society

Why Facebook did not take down States Times Review post

Facebook stood by its policies and said that the social media company doesn't have a policy that prohibits alleged falsehoods.

Nov 14, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Fake news

Politics

Facebook, Twitter fight against the surge of fake news during 2018 US midterm election

Facebook and Twitter both were trying to combat fake news and took initiative to block users who were trying to spread inaccurate information during US Election Day.

Nov 7, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Fake news

Online scammer arrested for hacking into Facebook Messenger and impersonation

Technology

Cyber criminals selling stolen private Facebook messages for 10 cents per account

Facebook is back in the news with another data breach incident involving thousands of accounts and private messages shared on the platform. Read more about it here.

Nov 4, 2018

By Sami Khan

Companies

Facebook expects rising costs to combat scandals to moderate after 2019

A few financial analysts are concerned that the company's operational problems are so vast that revenue growth and cost containment will not come as expected.

Oct 31, 2018

By Reuters

Mark zuckerberg

Facebook removes child nudity from its platform

Technology

Facebook cracks down heavily on child nudity by removing millions of images with AI's help

Facebook uses AI and machine learning to remove child nudity images and content from its platform.

Oct 25, 2018

By Sami Khan

Artificial intelligence

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