Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers
Sat, Mar 02, 2019
Facebook Inc said on Friday that it filed a lawsuit along with Instagram in U.S. federal court against four companies and three people based in the People`s Republic of China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers.
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Facebook admits it needs to do more for content reviewers
Wed, Feb 27, 2019
In September 2018, a former content moderator at Facebook sued the company alleging moderators who face mental trauma after reviewing distressing images on the platform are not being properly protected by the social networking giant.
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How to stop Facebook from tracking your location
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
Introducing the new privacy control feature to its Android app, Paul McDonald, Engineering Director, Location Infrastructure, Facebook wrote in a blog-post on Wednesday, "We`re introducing a new background location control on Facebook for Android so people can choose if they want us to collect location information when they`re not using the app."
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Facebook interested in Blockchain-based authentication: Mark Zuckerberg
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
According to him, Blockchain could give users more powers when granting data access to third-party apps. Facebook last year promoted one of its senior engineers Evan Cheng as the Director of Engineering at its recently launched Blockchain division.
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Google and Facebook have no business in banking: Uday Kotak
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
Kotak said banks work at a leverage of 10:1 wherein they lend out Rs 10 for every rupee of capital which they have. It is a high risk business, but perceived to be safe, Kotak said, stressing banks have "no choice" but to manage the risks well.
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EU countries back copyright reforms aimed at Google, Facebook
Wed, Feb 20, 2019
European Union countries on Wednesday endorsed an overhaul of the bloc`s copyright rules which would force Google and Facebook Inc to pay publishers for news snippets and filter out copyright-protected content on YouTube or Instagram.
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Facebook accused of revealing sensitive health data
Tue, Feb 19, 2019
At that time, the social networking giant reportedly claimed to have made changes to "Groups" that ended the practice and emphasised on the option for join "Secret Groups" - that are, although difficult to join, but have a more limited discoverability.
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