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Facebook says you can turn off location tracking; two senators have their doubts

Tinder and other popular apps were given 'whitelist' privileges

The company in September said it had suspended tens of thousands of apps as a result of an investigation into its software developer ecosystem following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

In a first, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that companies violated civil rights law through their use of Facebook’s targeting advertising.

Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Understanding political ads and their transparency

The FTC’s antitrust probe is giving Facebook’s competitors a chance to air complaints. One of them is Snap, where the legal team kept a dossier of ways it felt Facebook was trying to thwart competition.

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In December 2018, Privacy international exposed the dubious practices of some of the most popular apps in the world.

A new feature allows Facebook users to opt out of facial recognition on the social network

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K…

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