In an important court case over digital privacy, Facebook will attempt to protect user data of 9/11 responders who, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, have defrauded the US Social Security Administration.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users’ personal information without…
DetailsFacebook and Instagram announced Monday that they will prohibit the use of their company data for warrantless surveillance, in response to a months-long effort from civil liberties and civil rights groups to protect users of those platforms.
Facebook has said government requests for data and demands for content to be taken down surged in the first half of 2015, which the social network has seen continually increase since it began publicly releasing such data two years ago.
Madness,” declared the Facebook post written by Jewish women’s activist, rabbinic pleader and writer Rivkah Lubitch on a Hebrew-language Facebook group devoted to the treatment of women in religious Jewish law.
Facebook instructs moderators to ignore Holocaust denial posted to its website unless it came from one of four countries out of more than a dozen countries where it is illegal and only then if it is reported, the UK Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.
A document has emerged which could have rather terrifying implications on privacy.
NEW YORK — Facebook has a case of the Mondays.
New York – Facebook is blocking ad blockers on the desktop version of its service, saying well-made, relevant ads can be “useful.”
Sheryl Sandberg wrote about losing her husband this past May in a touching post on Facebook.
