Fidelity fund manager Will Danoff recently made statements in support of Facebook’s response to privacy and misinformation issues surrounding the company during the past few months. Danoff revealed that while “stiff headwinds” confronted the stock in the first half of 2018, Facebook was still his fund’s...
Facebook announced this week that it has banned another third-party quiz app called “myPersonality” for sharing user information with researchers and companies “with only limited protections in place”. The app, which was linked to the University of Cambridge’s Psychometric Centre, had reportedly been active even before...
Facebook announced this week that it has suspended 400 apps due to possible data misuse. It was noted that this is twice the number the company cited last May. One app, myPersonality, had already been handed a full ban as the developer declined a full audit,...
Apple confirmed this week that Facebook’s Onavo security app has been removed from its App Store for violating privacy rules. The iPhone maker had reportedly warned Facebook that Onavo did not comply with the company’s data collection policy. An Apple spokesperson clarified that apps should not...
A cybersecurity expert from Northeastern University was recently given a grant by Facebook after providing the company a fix for a data leak he also discovered. Associate professor of computer and information science Alan Mislove was awarded $60,000 through Facebook’s Secure the Internet grant program after...
The US Department of Justice is reportedly forcing Facebook to break the encryption in its Messenger app to allow law enforcement access to a suspect’s voice conversations involved in an investigation of the MS-13 gang. Sources have said that the DoJ made the motion to hold...
Facebook awarded this week $800,000 to 10 winners of its “Secure the Internet” grants program which focuses on security and privacy related projects made available to universities and research organizations. Outgoing security chief Alex Stamos announced that two organizations won $100,000, while the rest will be...
The US academic community this week wrote an open letter to Facebook, requesting that the tech giant formally amend its terms of service to exclude academic researchers from the company’s efforts to protect its users. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University explained to CEO...
It was recently reported that the privacy of thousands of women in private Facebook groups had been violated by marketers using a Chrome plugin that can be used to discover the names and private health information of group members. The women, who carry mutations in...
Analysts said this week that US tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube are likely to be hit by the recommendations of the Justice Srikrishna Committee on advertising and curbing data tracking of users under 18, as the websites have a huge subscription base...