Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding content such as ‘like’ buttons.
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Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible.
Facebook faces furious shareholders at annual meeting
They accused execs of human rights violations, compared Zuckerberg to Vladimir Putin, and challenged his “corporate dictatorship.”
Facebook to be blocked in Papua New Guinea for one month
The plan: figure out how it affects people; ID users behind fake accounts, fake news & porn posts; and maybe cook up its own social network.
Facebook battles tiny startup over privacy accusations
Is there no end to Facebook’s petty humiliations? It is now the turn of an obscure startup called Six4Three to cause the company trouble.
Facebook’s counterintuitive way to combat nonconsensual porn
“Upload your nudes to stop revenge porn” might sound crazy but it actually makes sense.
Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.
Know what Instagram knows – here’s how you download your data
Thank you GDPR.
LinkedIn patches serious leak in its AutoFill plugin
Anyone could have drained their users’ LinkedIn profile data
WhatsApp image showing drug dealer’s fingerprints leads to arrest
Enhanced social media images of the man’s fingers led to the takedown of 11 members of a drug ring and his sentencing.