Data is empowering. Personal information, available online, helped Donald Trump win the presidency, and people’s online identities fuel Facebook’s bottom line.
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Snapchat is testing ‘Connected Apps’ for sharing information
As Facebook users are uninstalling apps they connected long ago via Facebook log-in, Snapchat may be pushing for its community to do the exact opposite.
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FTC confirms it’s investigating Facebook — a huge threat to the social media giant
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it’s investigating Facebook and its data policies following reports that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica accessed personal information of 50 million Americans without their knowledge.
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Apple’s Tim Cook calls for stronger privacy laws after the Facebook scandal
Tim Cook looks at Facebook’s messy Cambridge Analytica affair as something of a wake-up call.
The Apple CEO has largely kept quiet on privacy issues since Facebook’s troubles sprung up last week. That’s when we learned that the political consulting f…
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
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Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app.
Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways.
Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in the personal data market to squelch competition and took issue with Facebook’s tracking of users outside of its social network.
On Tuesday, France’s privacy regulator took issue with an entirely different part of Facebook — messaging service WhatsAppFrance threatened to fine Facebook for taking user data from WhatsApp without user consent.
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Think Facebook is the only company watching you? Think again.
Napster founder and Facebook investor Sean Parker recently shared how Facebook optimizes its user experience around certain psychological vulnerabilities.
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