Remember Instapaper? The Pinterest-owned, read-it-later bookmarking service is taking a break in Europe — apparently while it works on achieving compliance with the region’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, which will start being applied from tomorrow. Instapaper’s notification does not say how long the self-imposed outage will last. WTF is instapaper doing with data? pic.twitter.com/eG2dhtkvnd — […]
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Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR
Put on your best unsurprised face: Unroll.me, a company that has, for years, used the premise of ‘free’ but not very useful ’email management’ services to gain access to people’s email inboxes in order to data-mine the contents for competitive intelligence — and controversially flog the gleaned commercial insights to the likes of Uber — […]
View More Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPRFacebook is still falling short on privacy, says German minister
Germany’s justice minister has written to Facebook calling for the platform to implement an internal “control and sanction mechanism” to ensure third-party developers and other external providers are not able to misuse Facebook data — calling for it to both monitor third party compliance with its platform policies and apply “harsh penalties” for any violations. […]
View More Facebook is still falling short on privacy, says German ministerFacebook is trying to block Schrems II privacy referral to EU top court
Facebook’s lawyers are attempting to block a High Court decision in Ireland, where its international business is headquartered, to refer a long-running legal challenge to the bloc’s top court. The social media giant’s lawyers asked the court to stay the referral to the CJEU today, Reuters reports. Facebook is trying to appeal the referral by challenging […]
View More Facebook is trying to block Schrems II privacy referral to EU top courtKogan: “I don’t think Facebook has a developer policy that is valid”
A Cambridge University academic at the center of a data misuse scandal involving Facebook user data and political ad targeting faced questions from the UK parliament this morning. Although the two-hour evidence session in front of the DCMS committee’s fake news enquiry raised rather more questions than it answered — with professor Aleksandr Kogan citing […]
View More Kogan: “I don’t think Facebook has a developer policy that is valid”Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe
Facebook users in Europe are reporting the company has begun testing its controversial facial recognition technology in the region. Jimmy Nsubuga, a journalist at Metro, is among several European Facebook users who have said they’ve been notified by the company they are in its test bucket. The company has previously said an opt-in option for facial […]
View More Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in EuropeCan data science save social media?
The unfettered internet is too often used for malicious purposes and is frequently woefully inaccurate. Social media — especially Facebook — has failed miserably at protecting user privacy and blocking miscreants from sowing discord.
View More Can data science save social media?Russia starts blocking Telegram for failing to turn over encryption keys
The Russian state telecommunication regulator has began blocking Telegram as expected. This comes after the messaging company refused to give Russian security services encryption keys. The service is expected to be blocked within the coming hours. According to several reports Telegram is still operational in the country though several service providers have started blocking the […]
View More Russia starts blocking Telegram for failing to turn over encryption keysZuckerberg won’t give a straight answer on data downloads
What does Facebook know about you? Clearly a whole lot more than it’s comfortable letting on. Today, during testimony in front of the House Energy & Commerce committee, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was pressed by congressman Jerry McNerney on whether Facebook lets users download all their information — and he ended up appearing to contract its […]
View More Zuckerberg won’t give a straight answer on data downloadsZuckerberg urges privacy carve outs to compete with China
Facebook’s founder said last month that the company is open to being regulated. But today he got asked by the US senate what sort of legislative changes he would (and wouldn’t) like to see as a fix for the problems that the Cambridge Analytica data scandal has revealed. Zuckerberg’s response on this — and on […]
View More Zuckerberg urges privacy carve outs to compete with ChinaFacebook did not inform the FTC about initial Cambridge Analytica leak
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that his company did not notify the Federal Trade Commission about the initial user data leak that triggered its most recent privacy scandal. “They considered it a ‘closed case’,”Zuckerberg said in response to a question over whether […]
View More Facebook did not inform the FTC about initial Cambridge Analytica leakA brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony
The Facebook founder will be questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees later today — in a session entitled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.” Mark Zuckerberg is also due to testify before Congress on Wednesday — to be asked about the company’s use and protection of user […]
View More A brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony