February 19, 2020

Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco

Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission's release of its manifesto on regulating AI.

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January 08, 2020

Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes

Quick-n-sleazy edits are still OK, such as the 75% slowdown that made Nancy Pelosi slur or the edit that turned Joe Biden into a racist.

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December 20, 2019

Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!

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November 08, 2019

Leak of 4,000 Facebook documents heaps more trouble on internet giant

This week’s bold rebrand of Facebook to FACEBOOK can’t hide the growing sense that nobody is happy with the company right now.

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October 07, 2019

Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans

The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.

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June 13, 2019

Facebook keeps deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg

"Whoever controls the data, controls the future," says the evil Zuck, who, according to the platform's current policy, won't be taken down.

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May 13, 2019

Break up Facebook, cofounder says: it’s an un-American monopoly

During the 2018 "annus horribilis", users disgusted at privacy flops swore to dump Facebook. But where else is there to go?

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March 08, 2019

Zuck says Facebook is becoming more “privacy focused”

Facebook's planning a new, highly integrated platform and talking a lot about encrypted messaging.

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February 20, 2019

Facebook tracks users it thinks may harm its employees

Threat makers are sometimes geolocated to determine how credible their threats are, as in, are they near enough to really attack?

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