Facebook may be ordered to remove offensive content posted by users in the European Union and then also hunt for similar posts anywhere in the world, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said.
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Apple has announced a slew of new privacy features on Monday, including a new “sign in with Apple” capability.
Twitter is showing its users more ads. That’s a clumsy approach to boosting advertising revenue in an age of sophisticated micro-targeting, and it shows the weakness of Twitter’s business model.
Facebook says there are still “many open questions” about how it will use and keep data such as users’ Internet protocol addresses as part of its years-long plans to focus on privacy through messaging and groups.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the developments around Huawei and what they might mean for the future of the company and smartphones as we know them.
Facebook is edging closer to launching its own cryptocurrency, with an aim to launch as soon as next year.
Unlike bitcoin, Facebook’s aim with GlobalCoin is not to bring down the established financial system, but to co-opt it.
Facebook has experienced a steep increase in the number of fake accounts being created on the social network, resulting in more than three billion being taken down.
Facebook will restrict people who have broken certain rules from using its Live streaming feature in response to the mosque terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The discovery that hackers could snoop on WhatsApp should alert users of supposedly secure messaging apps to an uncomfortable truth.