Internet
How long has it been since you logged onto a Web site and you were prompted to decide whether to opt out of "cookies" that the site told you will enhance your online experience? Minutes? Hours?
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Brazil on Monday fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users' data in a case linked to the global Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Dec 31, 2019
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Facebook on Friday alerted employees that hard drives rich with information about those on the social network's payroll were stolen from a car last month.
Dec 13, 2019
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Facebook on Thursday said it was ready for a data privacy law that will go into effect in its home state of California at the start of next year.
Dec 12, 2019
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Canada will impose a levy on internet giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook similar to France's digital services tax that created tensions with Washington, two ministers said Monday.
Dec 10, 2019
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US regulators concluded Friday that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica—at the center of a massive scandal on hijacking of Facebook data—deceived users of the social network about how it collected and handled their ...
Dec 06, 2019
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Differences in cultural values have led some countries to tackle the spectre of cyber-attacks with increased internet regulation, whilst others have taken a 'hands-off' approach to online security—a new study shows.
Dec 02, 2019
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Internet
On March 12, the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, the internet's founder Tim Berners-Lee said we needed to "fix the web."
Nov 27, 2019
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Internet
Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online.
Nov 08, 2019
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Leaked documents from a civil suit against Facebook show how the social network aimed to employ user data as a tool for bargaining and to manipulate competitors, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
Nov 07, 2019
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California's attorney general disclosed an ongoing probe into Facebook's privacy practices Wednesday, as it sued the company over its repeated refusal to turn over documents and answer questions.
Nov 06, 2019
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Internet
Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm takes into account more kinds of information than previous algorithms ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Software
A widely downloaded Chinese propaganda app that quizzes users on Communist Party heroes and military achievements may be "studying them right back" through data collection and potential security breaches, an internet freedom ...
Oct 17, 2019
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Twitter on Tuesday apologized after "inadvertently" using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security.
Oct 09, 2019
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When you open a newly-installed app on your phone and it says to you, "This app would like to use your location data," what do you do? Depending on the app, you might be thinking, Why does it need my location? Wouldn't ...
Oct 07, 2019
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