Australian law makers have responded very quickly to the Christchurch shootings.
Tag Archives: Social networks
Facebook won’t ask for your email password any more
What’s that you say – Facebook was asking for the password to your email account? Yes, sometimes it was.
Are there viable alternatives to Facebook and Twitter?
There’s growing interest in social networks that prioritize user control. Two of the popular ones are Mastodon and Diaspora.
Facebook’s Whitehat Settings lets bug-hunters dial back app security
The “Whitehat” settings will help researchers to analyze network traffic from its mobile apps by dialling back security settings.
Scammer pleads guilty to fleecing Facebook and Google of $121m
Large, worldly tech companies would never fall for a wire transfer invoice scam, would they?
Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers’ chats with the ICO.
MySpace loses 50 million songs in server migration
Everything uploaded prior to 2015 is gone for good, the cobwebby social network finally admitted.
Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
A worldwide, nearly day-long outage at Facebook led to Telegram having a busy, busy day.
Google needs breaking up, says news chief
And Oracle accused Google of creating shadow profiles of even non-users. Theirs are just two of 85 responses to an Australian inquiry.
Facebook sues developers over data-scraping quizzes
Downloaded by 63K users, the quizzes promised answers to questions such as “What kind of dog are you according to your zodiac sign?”