Facebook harvested the e-mail contacts of 1.5 million new users who joined the site since 2016 and did so without their consent.
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The Nasdaq 100 closed at a record of 7 680.72 on Wednesday, surpassing its August 2018 peak and extending its year-to-date gain past 21%.
A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled Internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
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Facebook suffered its third major outage this year, with users across the world unable to access the social network or its suite of services such as Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook and its allied services WhatsApp and Instagram were down for users around the world on Sunday.
Facebook is rolling out a slew of new and expanded ways to rein in the spread of misinformation across its websites and apps, amid heightened global scrutiny of social networks’ actions to remove false and violent content.
Jumbo can be connected to a user’s Facebook and Twitter account and will automatically increase privacy settings.
New Zealand’s official privacy watchdog has described Facebook as “morally bankrupt” and suggested his country follow Australia’s lead by making laws that could jail executives over streamed violence.
Technology companies such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are set to face a statutory duty to protect UK users against a broad range of harmful content or risk “heavy” fines.