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How to protect your Facebook account: a walkthrough
We walk you through the important settings you can change and behaviors you can implement to lock down your privacy on Facebook.
Facebook denies sharing private messages without user knowledge
Facebook hit back at press reports this week that highlighted a deep network of privileged data-sharing partnerships between the social media company and other large organisations.
Facebook photo API bug exposed users’ unpublished photos
It affected up to 6.8 million users and up to 1,500 apps. “We’re sorry this happened,” said Facebook with what must be acute apology fatigue.
Facebook has filed patents to predict our future locations
One such use would be to pre-stuff our devices with ads and other content before we wander into a Wi-Fi dead zone.
Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used
They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it’s making big bucks off users’ data. They ordered the company to apologize.
Facebook staff’s private emails published by fake news inquiry
The cache of seized Facebook documents show how Facebook whitelists certain companies so they can keep lapping up user data.
Social media scraping app Predictim banned by Facebook and Twitter
We all want a “perfect” babysitter. But can we trust AI to comb through years of social media posts and label people with a “score?”
Facebook bug resurrects ghostly messages from the past
In the latest in a long line of SNAFUs, it seems Facebook has found a new way to inadvertently torment us: resurfacing old chat messages.
LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users
What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.