FTC Confirms Investigation Into Facebook Data Privacy Practices
- Germany's justice minister says she wants closer oversight of companies such as Facebook, following a meeting with executives about the abuse of users' private data. He said Facebook officials "have been misleading to the committee". Facebook's stock declined last week.
- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he's invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at a hearing next month on data privacy.
Separately, Facebook disputed reports that it had been logging call and text data surreptitiously from its users. Katarina Barley says Facebook representatives assured her Monday that such breaches wouldn't occur again and pledged to inform those users who were affected.
The problem is, "almost nobody reads privacy policies, and if they do, they don't understand them", Friewald said.
The European Union has taken a different approach. Gathering data on friends was permitted at the time, even if they had never installed the app or given explicit consent. They also asked Zuckerberg for an update on how Facebook will allow users to more easily control the privacy of their accounts. It has sparked data security concerns that users haven't necessarily considered until now. Facebook did not immediately respond to questions about what types of regulation it would be open to or whether it would support EU-style regulation for the U.S. "Some are wondering if there's a better way to limit who can access their personal information".
The relationship has not only left Facebook users and others wondering how that personal information was used but also how Cambridge Analytica got their hands on it in the first place.
Waymo partners with Jaguar to make an autonomous I-Pace SUV
At a press conference today in New York , Waymo CEO John Krafcik announced the world's first premium electric self-driving auto . The tie-in will see 20,000 self-driving Jaguar I-Pace SUVs added to Waymo's fleet by 2020, ready for customers to hail.
A gripping silence linked the Florida shooting to today's march in Washington
Gonzalez spoke with other Parkland , Florida, students on Saturday at a protest in Washington to demand action on gun control. Other cities across the country have adopted different approaches for their independently organized marches.
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Kogan developed an app on which 270,000 Facebook users supplied information about themselves. Facebook says the data is secure and not sold to third parties, but the company's blog post "doesn't address why it would be necessary to retain not just the numbers of contacts from phone calls and SMS messages, but the date, time, and length of those calls for years", writes Sean Gallagher.
Facebook is not the only company that has been tripped up by its handling of user data. Under pressure, it backed down and said it would stop the practice. Uber can't send a driver to a rider's doorstep without obtaining a location, for example.
26 de marzo de 2018, 15:54London, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina) After the leak of data on 50 million users, distrust on Facebook tends today to spread through social networks, as confirmed by the #DeleteFacebook label and the presentation of different governmental claims.
"He said he would, if he was the right guy", Warner said on CBS's "Face the Nation".
The German poll published by Bild was conducted by Kantar EMNID, a unit of global advertising holding company WPP, using representative polling methods, the firm said. Facebook's other planned changes are aimed more at making sure controversies like this one are less likely to spring up in the future.
Facebook's trove of data is used to decide which ads to show you. "If this leads to significant regulatory crosshairs, then the thesis on Facebook goes by the wayside". Facebook's mobile app actually rose in Apple's App Store ranking this week, suggesting more downloads.
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