Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis recently clarified several details surrounding the company’s anti-revenge porn pilot which is currently being tested in Australia. A step in the program which requires the user to upload nude pictures was met with concern and ridicule due to...
Facebook is currently testing a new feature in Australia where users can prevent being victimized by “revenge porn” by submitting said pictures which contain nudity. The system is similar to the anti-child-porn mechanism already in place on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. However, the...
Earlier this week, a spokesperson confirmed that Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon expressed her support for the EU regulator’s tough stance on WhatsApp’s data sharing issue. The Office of the DPC additionally said that both WhatsApp and Facebook Ireland confirmed with them that data...
A Facebook executive recently reiterated that the social media company does not listen to phone conversations for the purpose of ad targeting. A week ago, a video posted on Reddit claimed to show how Facebook’s app eavesdrops on a user’s phone conversation. The user said that...
Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure recently identified a Facebook spam campaign that uses phishing pages to obtain the Facebook and YouTube login credentials of Android and iOS users. The attackers use shortened links that appear to be from YouTube which they spread via the user’s compromised account....
Facebook’s WhatsApp is expected to clash with EU’s data regulator once more for sharing user data with its parent company. The chat app had already been warned for the same issue around a year ago. The pan-European data regulator has created a task force called the...
Last Thursday, Belgium’s data privacy regulator sought a court order to stop Facebook from collecting data for advertising, and for providing “misleading” data to its users. The agency threatened to slap the social media giant with a 250,000 euro daily penalty. Ruben Roex of Time.Lex said...
A new W3C standard called Payment Request API is now increasingly being adopted in most browser implementations since it makes entering and storing credit card info significantly faster. However, the fact that it stores the information in the browser similar to how passwords are currently...
Earlier this week, the first review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was held by the EU and the Department of Commerce where visiting EU officials acknowledged that it was “intact and working”. The Privacy Shield, which is participated by around 2,400 organizations including tech giants Microsoft,...
A €1.2M or about $1.4 million dollar fine has been handed to Facebook by the Spanish data protection regulator after a series of violations were found in the social media giant's data-harvesting process. According to the AEPD of Spain, an investigation launched on Facebook’s processes...