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How to delete your number and email from Facebook’s database
Meta-owned social media platform Facebook recently added a new tool that allows users to remove the…
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Facebook acquires popular GIF database GIPHY for reported $400 million
GIPHY will join Facebook as part of Instagram's team. Facebook reportedly paid $400 million for the…
Paige Leskin
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Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI banned from selling face database to private US businesses
Facial recognition company Clearview AI is now banned from selling its database of faces to private…
Caroline Haskins
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Walmart is facing a class action suit for allegedly violating an Illinois privacy law by using surveillance cameras and Clearview AI's facial recognition database
Walmart is facing a class action lawsuit over its alleged use of surveillance cameras and Clearview…
Caroline Haskins
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Insider Weekly: Uber's mass exodus - We found Larry Page - Exclusive salary database
Compare salaries from more than 250 firms, read how Uber execs addressed massive employee turnover,…
Olivia Oran,Phil Rosen
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TikTok, Instagram and YouTube data leak exposes data of 235 million users
"The data was spread across several datasets and the most significant being two coming in at j…
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Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million time…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Meta's top engineer becomes the third senior executive to step down this month
David Mortenson will be replaced by Facebook owner's infrastructure chief, Santosh Janardhan, a spo…
Rosie Bradbury
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Over 267 million Facebook users had their names, phone numbers, and profiles exposed thanks to a public database, researcher says
Facebook has been overhauling its approach to user data in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica…
Kevin Webb
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11 million Unacademy user accounts were hacked in January — and they are now up for sale on Dark Web
The database of nearly 22 million learners on the edtech platform Unacademy was compromised in Janu…
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Facebook says it will ban sales of the Amazon rainforest after an investigation found plots of land were illegally sold on the platform
A BBC investigation found illegal sales of parts of the Amazon rainforest on Facebook Marketplace. …
Sarah Jackson
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A startup company took billions of photos from Facebook and other websites to create a facial-recognition database, and hundreds of law-enforcement agencies are using it
Clearview did not share which law-enforcement agencies have used its tool. In addition to the hundr…
Connor Perrett,Connor Perrett
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Google is adopting privacy changes on Android similar to the ones Apple made on iPhone that cost Facebook billions of dollars
Apple introduced a privacy feature to stop apps from tracking you on iPhone, and now Google is doin…
Ben Gilbert
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Retail investors poured $231 million into Meta stock as it tanked after earnings, the highest amount since 2018, research firm says
Thursday's buying spree was more than 25 times the $9 million in average daily net purchases of Met…
Carla Mozée
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Facebook blames Apple after a historically bad quarter, saying iPhone privacy changes will cost it $10 billion
Apple introduced a feature to stop apps from tracking you, and Facebook says it's going to cost the…
Ben Gilbert
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A startup that scraped billions of photos from Facebook and Google to create a facial-recognition database for police was just sent a cease-and-desist by Google and YouTube
But Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That argues that his company's software isn't doing anything illegal,…
Ben Gilbert
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How to check if your phone number was leaked in Facebook data breach of 533 million users
A massive Facebook data breach has leaked phone numbers, full names, locations, email address and o…
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From transphobia to Ted Kaczynski: How TikTok's algorithm enables far-right self-radicalization
Many extremist groups use the Internet to spread their ideologies and recruit newcomers. Social med…
Morgan Keith
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Meta has been ordered to sell Giphy after the UK's top antitrust watchdog ruled the $400 million deal could harm social media users
Ordering Meta, formerly Facebook, to sell Giphy would protect "millions of social media users," the…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Anonymity has always been part of the internet, but Facebook wants us to use our real names in the metaverse. Should we allow fake identities online?
Anonymous accounts have caused massive headaches for the internet, but the benefits to users are ev…