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Facebook appeals U.K. group’s $644,000 fine over Cambridge Analytica
After Facebook received a $644,000 (£500,000) from U.K. watchdog body over its failure to keep data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica from…
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Facebook appeals UK data watchdog’s £500K Cambridge Analytica fine
Facebook has said it will appeal a £500,000 penalty issued by the U.K.’s data watchdog this summer following a lengthy…
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Facebook failed to stop a child bride being auctioned on its platform
Facebook failed to prevent its platform being used to auction a 16-year-old girl off for marriage in South Sudan. Child…
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Internal Facebook memo sees outgoing VP of comms Schrage take blame for hiring Definers
TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo published by Facebook’s outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames…
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Zuckerberg won’t step down as Facebook chairman
In a short but amply-hyped interview with CNN, Facebook’s founder and chief executive again responded to criticism over the company’s…
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How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good
A ruling in late October against a little-known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website…
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Facebook starts rolling out dashboard to show how much time you waste on it every day
After Facebook announced in August that it was working on activity trackers so that users could see how much time they’re…
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Apple removed Tumblr from App Store due to child pornography sharing
Mirroring a situation earlier this year with Telegram’s app for iOS devices, the official Tumblr app unexpectedly disappeared from Apple’s…
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Read the mud-slinging pitches Facebook’s PR firm sent us
Facebook’s latest PR crisis has cast a lurid spotlight on a GOP-led publicity firm called Definers Public Affairs, after a New…
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Instagram will start removing fake likes, follows, and comments generated by apps
Pretty much ever since Instagram started booming in popularity, users have turned to automated apps that generate likes and follows…
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