A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts.
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Facebook expands use of face recognition
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.
Facebook photo API bug exposed users’ unpublished photos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.
Parents slam “weirdo” fraudsters for using child’s Facebook pic for cash
Did you help spread the viral scowling Pop-Tart™-deprived kid photo last week? Can’t be helped, mom said, but using it to raise cash was “lame.”
Facebook aiming for faceless facial recognition
Worried that Facebook can’t get your friends right in your selfies when their hair blows around? There might just be an app for that…
17% of parents ignore privacy settings but still post hundreds of photos of kids online
Parents upload an average of 973 photos of kids on social media before they hit 5 but 17% admit they don’t check privacy settings, ever.
How one man could have deleted every photo on Facebook
Facebook is probably the biggest collection of photographs ever assembled so it would be pretty bad if one man could delete every last one of them with his phone. Thankfully that’s what Laxman Muthiyah thought too.
Facebook’s DeepFace facial recognition technology has human-like accuracy
Facebook is going to allow you to blur your face in photos… once it’s identified you.
‘The Snappening’: Snapchat images flood the internet after SnapSaved.com hack
Hundreds of thousands of supposedly self-destructing Snapchat snaps have been apparently jimmied out of the database for SnapSaved.com, a third-party website not affiliated with Snapchat which allows users to save unopened photos from Snapchat without the sender knowing the images have been saved.
More celeb nude photos leaked: Cara Delevingne, Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lawrence (again)
Jennifer Lawrence again finds herself the subject of tawdry picture posters in what has been dubbed ‘The Fappening 3’ by Redditers and 4chan community members.