Facebook to Pay $90 Mn to Settle Privacy Lawsuit
Facebook will pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users’ internet activity even after they logged out of the platform....
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Texas Sues Facebook Over Facial-Recognition Practices
Texas’ attorney general’s office sued Facebook on Monday, saying that the social media giant breached state privacy laws with facial-recognition technology, which collects the biometric...
WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Named Signal’s CEO
Signal’s founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Moxie Marlinspike, will step down, and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will take his place to become the temporary...
CNIL Fines Google, Facebook $235 Million
Google and Facebook have been fined $235 million for tracking cookies in France. The Commission Nationale de I’informatique et Des Libertes (CNIL) has fined Google...
TikTok, Google Become Most Popular Website of 2021
TikTok has surpassed tech giant Google as the most popular website of 2021, media reported. According to a report by IT security company Cloudflare, the...
Russian Court Fines Google and Meta Platforms
A Russian court fined Alphabet’s Google $98 million for not deleting content Russia considers illegal. The court also fined Meta Platforms $27.15 million for the...
Amazon, Facebook, Twitter Drop Plans to Attend CES
Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest announced on Tuesday that they would not send teams to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas as worries...
Zoom Joins Counter-Terrorism Group by US Tech Firms
Zoom has joined a counter-terrorism group by US tech firms, including Meta Platforms and Microsoft. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) is an...
Instagram to Close Messaging App Threads
Instagram is shutting down its messaging app Threads by the end of 2021. Instagram declared that it would end the service by the end of...
Twitter Extends Free Data Access For App Developers
Twitter said that it would increase free data access to social networking sites to help software developers create tools and products to promote safer online...