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It's not just what you tell Facebook about yourself!
‘People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want’
I was reading Facebook's revised terms & "privacy" policy this morning, and it specifies that FB is allowed to collect the names of apps and the names of files on any device you log in from. Kudos to the EU for persuading FB to admit it.
Facebook thrives on data, prodding users to provide it with their memories, cherished moments and relationships.
Paypal vient d'ajouter Facebook à la liste des sociétés à qui elle fait parvenir des données personnelles pour des raisons publicitaires. La Cnil lance une alerte.
Consumer Reports explains how Facebook tracks consumers across many websites, gathering data even if you who don't have a Facebook or Instagram account.
Internal emails also reveal plans by Facebook to pass data on single Facebook users to companies selling dating services or organisations that wanted to target single people with ‘political’ advertisements. The documents, marked confidential, reveal a secret programme by Facebook’s ‘Growth Team’ to collect and exploit data from customers with Android mobile phones. Their disclosures come only a week after a critical report by a UK parliamentary committee investigating disinformation and fake news, called for independent regulator to oversee Facebook and other social media companies.
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook.
Well, this sounds familiar.
Léquipe de sécurité de Facebook est en mesure de suivre les utilisateurs que la firme considère comme une menace, selon un rapport publié par CNBC. La société utilise ce service pour assurer la sécurité de ses bureaux, mais des problèmes déthique en découlent.D'une part, Facebook a le devoir de protéger ses employés contre tout préjudice, en particulier lorsque lentreprise peut obtenir des données sur la cause et l'origine du préjudice. D'autre part. Il existe une nuance supplémentaire liée a...
Facebook et le régulateur américain du commerce, la FTC, négocieraient une amende record pour mettre fin aux enquêtes sur les pratiques du réseau social en matière de protection de la vie privée.
UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed "contempt" toward parliament by not appearing before them.
If Facebook’s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it’s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can’t be trusted not to sell, barter, or abuse that data whether…
Facebook collects more information on more people than almost any other private corporation in history. And it gave dozens of companies more intrusive access to that data than it ever disclosed.
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
As Facebook colonized the rest of the web with its functionality in hopes of fueling user growth, it built aggressive integrations with partners that are coming under newfound scrutiny through a deeply reported New York Times investigation. Some of what Facebook did was sloppy or unsettling, includ…
A new report on the social network's data-sharing arrangements has lawmakers calling for action.
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Facebook’s crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results. In March, TechCrunch discovered Facebook planned to require advertisers to pledge that they had permission to upload someone’s phone number or email address for ad targeting. That tool debuted i…