Facebook said that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change from May 2016.

Facebook has developed a plan to turn its users into the stars of advertising campaigns through new technology which can automatically scan people’s photographs and identify which products are featured in them.

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"It’s taking longer than we initially had thought."

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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton told students to reject Facebook by deleting their apps from their phones in an address at Stanford University in California on Wednesday.

Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Durov’s just wrote: “I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 …

Facebook, the online social network, has more than 2 billion global users. Because those users do not pay for the service, its benefits are hard to measure. We report the results of a series of three non-hypothetical auction experiments where winners are paid to deactivate their Facebook accounts for up to one year. Though the populations sampled and the auction design differ across the experiments, we consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year. While the measurable impact Facebook and other free online services have on the economy may be small, our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.

In December 2018, we revealed how some of the most widely used apps in the Google Play Store automatically send personal data to Facebook the moment they are launched. That happens even if you don't have a Facebook account or are logged out of the Facebook platform (watch our talk at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Leipzig or read

Le 22-02-2019, le Wall Street Journal publiait un article d’investigation détaillé. On y apprend que de nombreuses applications mobiles traitant des données de santé communiquent lesdites données à Facebook, que vous y soyez connecté·e ou pas. Defensive Lab Agency a été sollicitée pour conduire ces mêmes analyses. Au vu de la faible maturité sur le sujet, nous avons décidé d’expliciter une partie de notre expertise sur le sujet et d’illustrer les conclusions du Wall Street Journal avec quelques éléments techniques.

Coach sportif, date de règles, recherche d’appartement… ces services envoyaient des informations très privées, même si les utilisateurs n’étaient pas sur Facebook.

Facebook, Google, and other masters of the surveillance economy have bred a virulent mutation of capitalism, which explains why they aren’t interested in addressing their many scandals

WSJ reporter Katherine Bindley found that our ability to control Facebook ad tracking is limited and that much of what Facebook claims should come with lengthy footnotes.

WhatsApp has announced that it will start sharing your phone number with Facebook. The messaging service has updated its privacy policy to indicate the changes as well as other additions to the platform, such as WhatsApp Web, desktop clients, end-to-end encryption, and voice call service.

Thread by @jeremyburge: "For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and theresable that. Facebook 2FA numbers are also shared with Instagram which prompts you 'is this your phone number? […]"

Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment

Facebook has changed its story after initially trying to downplay how it targeted teens with its Research program that a TechCrunch investigation revealed was paying them gift cards to monitor all their mobile app usage and browser traffic. “Less than 5 percent of the people who chose to part…

Social media giant agreed on Tuesday that location data was ‘one of the factors’ it used but on Wednesday said no, not any more