According to CNN this week, Facebook had reportedly allowed Russian company Mail.Ru extended access to user data beyond its stop date of May 25. Facebook said that while Mail.Ru developed hundreds of apps, only two were granted a two-week extension and it did not see any...
It was revealed this week that litigation funder IMF Bentham Ltd may sue Facebook in Australia for sharing users’ data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. IMF has already filed a complaint with the Australian Information Commissioner alleging breaches of privacy laws over the data sharing and...
EU regulators are reportedly using artificial intelligence to find possible violations to the GDPR in the privacy policies of 14 major tech firms, including Facebook, Alphabet, and Amazon. Researchers from the European Union Institute in Florence worked with an EU consumer organization to develop the...
It is said that Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law will force tech companies, even as big as Google and Facebook, to choose between growth or protecting the privacy of users. The law, which is set to take effect January 1 next year, will require foreign IT...
Privacy experts from Consumer Reports recently said that a number of Facebook’s privacy settings remain confusing and hard to use, despite the company vowing to “put more people in control of their privacy”. Even after the company’s scandal with Cambridge Analytica, and after the GDPR has...
Stephen Satterfield, a privacy policy director at Facebook told EU lawmakers this week that they have not found any indications that EU user data had been shared with Cambridge Analytica. Facebook vice president of policy solutions Richard Allan added that said that the Cambridge Analytica researcher...
A developer this week revealed to TechCrunch that Facebook inadvertently emailed their App Analytics weekly summary to someone outside of their organization. The summary, which includes sensitive business information such as weekly average users, page views and new users, were apparently sent to app testers...
According to a recent study by PR consultancy firm Edelman, around four in 10 users have deleted a social media account in the past year due to privacy concerns. The research, published last Monday, shows a serious lack of trust in social media such as...
Facebook’s board of directors had reportedly broadened the charter of its audit committee to cover risk oversight responsibilities such as community safety, data privacy, and cybersecurity. However, it is said that the move was largely just a gesture to reassure shareholders that the tech giant takes...
Facebook unveiled this week new policies and controls which seek to inform its users better about how they are targeted with advertising. The company says that starting July 2, advertisers will be required to disclose if they obtained information from a data broker that led...