After months of wrangling, Belgium’s Privacy Commissioner is pressing ahead with a lawsuit against Facebook for stalking people who aren’t its users. Belgian authorities have found indisputable evidence that the company is flagrantly tracking both […]
Facebook is known to take what it perceives to be the moral high road when it comes to its social networking platform. It doesn’t think people should see mothers breast feeding and doesn’t believe people […]
Facebook loves fiddling with its News Feed algorithm. The company, now stocked with ex-Googler’s the search giant didn’t want, has always tried to tweak its news feed to get the engagement Google does with its […]
Big tech companies are known to be global tax evaders, using an elaborate corporate structures to pay virtually no tax. We’ve covered the practice here and here, yet there’s more action on this issue in […]
In the latest example of a solution looking for a problem, Facebook announced on Monday that its Place Tips program is expanding nationwide. Place Tips uses Bluetooth beacons to push Facebook posts and photos about […]
Facebook has gifted the world, especially those lacking high bandwidth internet connections, with Facebook Lite, a minimalist version of the privacy invading social networking app. Facebook doesn’t think anyone, anywhere, should be able to escape […]
When a tech billionaire buys a product that is ad free and all about the users its usually a sign that things will change in the very near future. True to form, serial privacy invader […]
Google continues to push hard into the realm of artificial intelligence, with its Google Now service increasingly offering predictive alerts based where you are and what you’re doing. Its latest project, yet to be released, […]
It’s important to remember that search, video and mobile phone operating systems are not the products Google makes. You’re the product. Or rather the troves of data the search giant maintains on you and sells […]
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, had sharp words to say over the weekend about the future of the internet. Speaking at the Web We Want Festival in London, England, the scientist […]
Users around the world are becoming increasingly disgruntled with Facebook, the privacy-invading social network that is increasingly placing the internet, and social lives, in a strangle hold. A group that feels marginalized by Facebook’s ‘real […]
In a clever attack on privacy invading Facebook, Google announced on Thursday a new dedicated Photos app for Android, iOS and the web. It had hinted at this repeatedly over the past month but its […]
Twitter isn’t the only company that has expressed interest in acquiring news reading app Flipboard, reports The Wall Street Journal. Citing multiple unnamed sources, the publication claims that several other companies, including Google and Yahoo, […]
Snapchat is one of the few big social networks not owned by Facebook but that doesn’t make it small. Despite being fairly new the company is making waves in the battle for young eyeballs, according […]
In Facebook-speak spam emails are called “newsletters” and spamming is called “trying a new engagement tactic,” the company announced over the weekend. In an effort to drive engagement (and one that shows attention paid to […]
Facebook’s plan to monopolize the internet of developing countries suffered a blow this weekend as Vodafone India, the country’s second-biggest mobile operator, announced it would hold off offering free internet or ‘zero rated’ services amid […]
Facebook’s duplicitous Internet.org initiative continues to gather opposition as over 60 rights groups from several nations across the globe, including the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Austria, India and others, criticized Facebook, saying that the […]
Facebook’s thinly disguised plan to control all content on the internet, Internet.org, received more harsh criticism on Tuesday. Rights activist group The Electronic Frontier Foundation condemned the Internet.org project, saying it runs “a real risk” […]
WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging service owned by privacy monetizer Facebook, will be opening its platform up to businesses, allowing them to communicate with their customers. While its a way to monetize the service it […]
It’s well known Facebook loves slurping your data. The content-ad network knows more about you than any other company on earth. It then sells this data to marketers, hence its multi-billion dollar valuation. But Facebook’s […]
Belgium’s privacy watchdog, The Commission de Protection de la Vie Privée (CPVP), condemned Facebook for its tracking of users and non-users, saying the company is in breach of EU privacy laws. The commission said it […]
Virtual reality has been around for nearly 40 years in some shape or form. From cardboard blue and red glasses of the 80s to the virtual reality programming languages of the mid-nineties, the technology has […]
And it isn’t just Facebook that knows all this – your data is freely shared with the NSA and CIA. It’s also available, without a warrant, to every law enforcement branch in the country. Just […]
Facebook’s sizable EU lobby, headed by Richard Allan, has taken out advertising in leading newspapers this morning to complain about “multiple” EU nations digging around the network’s data slurping business practices. The company’s complaint is […]
Twitter announced earnings today and they were terrible. The company missed on revenue and user metrics were weak (we’ll look at that closer below). First the highlights: Twitter’s first quarter revenue hit $436 million, missing […]
Parents and internet addicts take note: participating in online discussion forums may be good for your health, according to new research. The findings may also show negative health consequences associated with using Facebook and other […]
Facebook has released a smartphone app called Hello that matches the numbers of incoming calls to friends and businesses on the social network, in a 21st century version of caller ID. The tech press is […]
“Randomly watching and surveilling what’s going over the internet and invading the privacy of American citizens is not OK. Encryption is the solution.” answered Google Chairman Eric Schmidt when asked his thoughts on the state […]
In research that somewhat validates the tech industry’s recent obsession with virtual reality headsets, researchers discovered that people who receive instructions for a task remember them better when they are accompanied by a virtual reality […]
The $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp seems to have been worthwhile according to a clue dropped by the company today. Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum revealed on his Facebook page that the popular messaging company […]