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At Web Summit, EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says she doesn't want to break up big tech companies (Business Insider)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 09:59Stuart Brotman op-ed: Making Sure the Next ‘Killer App’ Is Not a Privacy Killer (Business Insider)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 12:12Op-ed: Facebook is acting like a broadcast station when it comes to running ads from politicans. What if the FCC regulated it? (Business Insider)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 19:16Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Since May 2016, the company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network. Facebook said the contact data was "unintentionally uploaded to Facebook," and it is now deleting them. The revelation comes after pseudononymous security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking some users to enter their email passwords when they signed up for new accounts to verify their identities, a move widely condemned by security experts.
Facebook's new Watch Party video-streaming feature is wildly popular with pirates, who use it to run illicit movie marathons (Business Insider)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 17:41Facebook is partnering with a big UK newspaper to publish sponsored articles downplaying 'technofears' and praising the company (Business Insider)
Submitted by Kip Roderick on Thu, 04/04/2019 - 14:04Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them. (Business Insider)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 03/31/2019 - 15:14Facebook secretly explored building bird-size drones to ferry data to people with bad internet connections
Facebook explored building bird-size drones to shuttle data for people in areas with slow internet connections. "Catalina" was a secret internal project in Facebook's Connectivity unit, the company's efforts to get people around the world online — and on Facebook. The tiny fixed-wing drones would be fitted with solid-state storage devices capable of storing data-intensive media like videos and photos. A Facebook representative said the project was ended a year ago.