In a recent interview, Robert W. Baird and Co.’s Colin Sebastian said that it is likely for the US to come up with its own privacy law in 2019 since most of the dominant tech companies in the country already support it. He said that such...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said in a Facebook post that his company has fundamentally changed its DNA to focus more on preventing the harm its services may cause. He added that even though the issues like fake news and privacy may take more than a...
Facebook announced this week that it has developed a tool that can be used to clear one’s browsing history on the platform. The feature, called “clear history”, would allow users to delete all apps and websites they’ve interacted with from their account. The tool is set...
Facebook and Twitter had reportedly taken action on a babysitting app from a California-based company called Predictim over personal data privacy concerns. The company claims to offer a babysitter vetting service where it provides a score out of 5 based on the applicant’s social media...
Despite his criticisms on privacy which were seemingly pointed towards Google and Facebook, Tim Cook recently explained why his company still prefers to do business with the search giant and keep it as the default search engine on Apple devices. Cook said that Google is the...
Facebook recently filed a patent that would make it easier for the company to target families via the contents of the photos they post, according to an application published this week. The system will reportedly use a more sophisticated way of data mining where details from...
A study panel composed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Fair Trade Commission and other entities proposed that regulations be imposed on IT companies that amass personal information. The rules will prevent tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon from hampering...
Facebook and Google had reportedly opted-in to a ‘contract’ designed by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee which will require tech giants to respect data privacy. At the Web Summit tech conference last November 5 in Lisbon, Berners-Lee called for a new contract for the web...
Facebook recently wrote to U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in the Northern District of California seeking the dismissal of a class-action privacy complaint over its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The tech firm reasoned that while the incident drew public attention to the...
In the company’s latest earnings call, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will be seeing some relief in terms of privacy and security after three years of heavy investment through the end of 2019. Zuckerberg said that while Facebook fell behind on its three-year roadmap...