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 […]
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Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Bury Friend Content, Increase Ads
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 […]
Google Announces Snow Job Of ‘Privacy Improvement’ In Attempt To Distract And Confuse Users
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 […]
Google Launches Stealth Attack On Facebook With Free Unlimited High Res Photo Storage App
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 […]
Facebook Owned Instagram To Start Spamming Users Who Don’t Use It Enough
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 […]
Telecom Giant Vodaphone Pulls Out Of Facebook’s Insidious Internet.org Scheme
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 […]
Human Rights Groups Denounce Facebook’s Internet.org Scheme In Open Letter To CEO
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 Internet.org Scheme Blasted By Rights Activists
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” […]
Get Ready For More WhatsApp Spam
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 […]
Facebook Creates Payment Platform To Steal Your Payment Data
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 […]
2016 Set To Be The Year Of Virtual Reality
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 […]
Facebook’s Internet.org Is A Privacy Nightmare
Facebook announced yesterday that it was opening up its Internet.org service to all sites, in response to criticism that it was playing favorites and undermining net neutrality in developing countries – effectively conditioning the population […]
Here’s A List Of Everything Facebook Knows About You
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 Complains About EU Pressure To Be Accountable For Privacy
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 […]
Is Social Media A Viable Business Model?
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 […]
Do You Use Online Forums? Read this.
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 Invents Caller ID, Reveals Problems At Company
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 […]
Google Blames NSA For Its Sloppy Security
“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 […]
Virtual Reality Experiences Help You Remember More
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 […]
WhatsApp Announces It Has 800 Million Monthly Active Users
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 […]
India Fears Billionaires Bearing Gifts
India seems to be much less enamoured and much more suspicious of American tech billionaires – especially ones bearing gifts. Facebook’s thinly veiled trojan horse Internet.org suffered a major blow on Wednesday when significant Indian […]