Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s biggest social network. But that’s not what they […]
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Facebook reveals 7 privacy principles with new educational videos
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Facebook created an adorable blue dinosaur back in 2014 to help educate its users about the social network’s privacy settings. But in 2018, the dino is not enough.
On Monday, Facebook released its privacy principles — seven sentences that the company says it should be held accountable to — as well as a series of educational videos about how to control the information Facebook collects and uses to show you ads, and how to delete your account.
The move, announced in a blog post, is not all for fun or just because Facebook suddenly realized it should be more communicative with its users on privacy. It dropped on Data Privacy Day. It’s also a sign that Facebook is preparing for the European Union’s upcoming privacy changes known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new rules go into effect on May 25. Read more…
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WTF is GDPR?
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Collibra snags $58 M Series D led by Iconiq and Battery Ventures to simplify data governance
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Concerns raised over new ethics regime for UK public sector data processing
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