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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
Ajouté le 30-01-2019, publié le 31-01-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a 'Facebook Research' VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook...
Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was
Ajouté le 02-05-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having thoughtful discussions in 'meaningful' Groups, planning offline meetups with Events, or laughing together in a Facebook Watch party. In reality, Facebook is a cluttered mess of features that seem to constantly leak...
L'image contient peut-être… : la panne Facebook révèle les descriptions générées automatiquement
Ajouté le 04-07-2019, via BDM, dans High-Tech & Internet
Hier, les photos n'étaient pas disponibles sur Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp. Ce bug a permis aux utilisateurs de découvrir les descriptions d'images générées automatiquement par le réseau social... The post Lâimage contient peut-être... : la panne Facebook révèle les descriptions...
Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it
Ajouté le 08-05-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Mark Zuckerberg: 'The future is private'. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO's made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook's product updates were mostly vague vaporware while Google's were either ready to ship or ready to demo....
Facebook pourrait écoper d'une amende de plusieurs milliards
Ajouté le 15-02-2019, via Journal du Geek, dans High-Tech & Internet
Une amende en négociation Le scandale Cambridge Analytica continue de tourmenter le réseau social. Facebook est en négociation avec la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pour définir le montant de l'amende qui lui sera infligée. Selon le Washington Post, la firme détenue par Mark Zuckerberg...
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Facebook supprime des milliards de faux comptes
Ajouté le 27-05-2019, via Journal du Geek, dans High-Tech & Internet
Crédit : Book Catalog via Flickr Le chiffre a de quoi donner le tournis. Jeudi, Mark Zuckerberg a annoncé avoir supprimé plusieurs milliards de faux comptes sur Facebook . Une opération qui visait à éradiquer le nombre grandissant de profils fantômes créés de manière automatique. En tout,...
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Friend portability is the must-have Facebook regulation
Ajouté le 12-05-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations. When people can easily move to a competitor, it creates a natural market dynamic coercing a business to act right. When we can't, other regulations just leave us trapped with a pig in a fresh coat of lipstick. That's why as the FTC...
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Facebook lied about how many teens it used for research
Ajouté le 01-03-2019, via Mashable, dans High-Tech & Internet
You know it's a good day at Facebook when the words "teenagers," "research," and "lying" are in the news. In January, an investigation from TechCrunch found that Facebook was paying people, including teenagers, $20 to monitor their internet and phone use. SEE ALSO:...
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Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
Ajouté le 20-01-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature. Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change from their local and national elected...
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Stung by criticism, Facebook's Sandberg outlines new plans to tackle misinformation
Ajouté le 20-01-2019, via TechCrunch, dans High-Tech & Internet
Stung by criticism of its widely reported role as a platform capable of spreading disinformation and being used by state actors to skew democratic elections, Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg unveiled five new ways the company would be addressing these issues at the annual DLD conference in Munich,...
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