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The Telegraph is suggesting that Facebook is better at connecting ISIS folks better than it does for friends you might be missing. Considering I have no friends and don't use Facebook, I will withhold my comment. Facebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...

It seems that Facebook might be feeling a little pressure over the Cambridge Analytica scandal because they are considering an ad-free subscription service to regain trust. Also, they believe it might bring even more people to Facebook. However, this is far from a done deal, but at least it's...

A couple of days ago Kyle posted news of a possible stalker using internal Facebook tools to stalk women. Facebook didn't wait too long to get rid of this guy in this updated story and he's on the outside looking in. Of course he's not really bright since he basically told one of his victims...

In a press release on their website today, the company who harvested the data of 87 million people from Facebook is shutting down. Since the story first broke in March of the massive data breach, the scandal has cause Facebook to lose $60 billion in market share in 2 days, cause Mark Zuckerberg...

CNBC is reporting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the annual F8 Developer Conference today, that they are launching a new dating feature. The opt-in feature will allow users to make a dating profile that friends won't be able to see, as well as match users with people they are...

Something you never want to hear, "Funny bumping into to you on Tinder, I only had to access your locked down Facebook page to find you." The Wrap is reporting on a series of Tweets by a woman that thinks she is being cyberstalked by a self-proclaimed Facebook security analyst. That said, I...

Apparently the so-called Cambridge Analytica scandal hasn't hurt Facebook at all. They just released their first quarter earnings and they beat analysts' estimates like a drum. As a matter of fact, daily and monthly user numbers are up, up, up. Just goes to show all the faux outrage in the world...

According to a national survey of 2,500 adults in the US at least 83% of those surveyed want tighter rules on companies like Facebook that have their personal data. Also, the same percentage of those surveyed think companies that have their information should be legally responsible in the event...

The New York Times is reporting that the now infamous Cambridge Analytica was quietly planning to offer its own virtual currency in an initial coin offering. The New York Times obtained documents and emails that show Cambridge Analytica was also promoting another cryptocurrency behind the...

"Hard Questions: What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?" Is this a hard question because Facebook does not know the answer, or it knows the answer and it does not want to tell you? When does Facebook get data about people from other websites and apps? Many...

Facebook isn't seeing any real changes in user behavior after the privacy uproar began, according to the Facebook VP of global marketing solutions, She also stated the company is expecting to continue making the big bucks with its current business model and stricter privacy laws shouldn't have...

Ina report from USA Today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told reporters that he is leaving Facebook over privacy concerns. "Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and ... Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this," he said in an email to USA TODAY. "The profits are all...

Facebook has been fined $33 million for failing to help Brazilian authorities. The fine comes from two years ago when a court froze $6 million of Facebook's cash after it didn't hand over data for a criminal drug smuggling investigation. Facebook is apparently still not cooperating, and a judge...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is still out there telling everyone that Facebook doesn't sell user information, because they just share it with advertisers. However, when the question came up about not sharing data the COO stated Facebook depends on that data as part of the business model and to...

Facebook is really trying to get trust back these days and they aren't doing a good job of it if you ask me. Take for instance their last little trick where messages sent to others from Zuckerberg or other executives is being removed from the mailbox of the person who received it. Nothing in...

Mark Zuckerberg says users that had their profile set to allow others to search for them by email address or phone number have had that information scraped by others. Because of this Facebook has seen malicious actors scraping up this information (Warning auto play video) and they have turned...

An email titled "The Ugly" from Facebook exec Andrew Bosworth has surfaced in media and it's ugly for Facebook. Written in 2016 the email suggests that Facebook growth at any cost is the goal. It even mentions that this strategy could get people killed, but overall it's more important to grow...

Tim Cook says he wouldn't be in the same situation as Facebook because they don't do business the same way. Of course it's easy to differentiate yourself from a information company since you only sell hardware. However, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple sells our information and just hasn't been...

In the wake of the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is releasing new tools to make privacy settings, as well as deleting your data easier to find. The system is focused around a new Privacy Shortcuts menu, where users can can control the data Facebook collects in just a few taps...

I guess when you being called in front of Congress to testify to talk about privacy issues that are plaguing your company, it is not the best time to launch your own in-home "assistant" hardware. Just for the record, we are not fans of any of the in-home spying devices. I have two of those...

Vanity Fair is reporting that Facebook is getting even more bad press when it comes to user data. With the events of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, more and more people are taking a look at the data the Facebook has on them. One user, Dylan McKay, and Android user, downloaded his Facebook data...

Reuters is reporting that U.S lawmakers have formally asked Mark Zuckerberg to explain how 50 million users' data ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica. The request comes from The House Energy and Commerce Committee, and no date has been set for the testimony. Things just keep going...

Time is reporting that Elon Musk has deleted the Facebook accounts for SpaceX and Tesla following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Following a call on twitter to delete facebook, Elon Musk was not even aware of the pages existance. Musk shortly after deleted both accounts. While the quote below...

I guess the average user of social media really doesn't have a clue when it comes to their data, who's using it, or who owns the platform they are using. Case in point is that some people are leaving Facebook and are getting their social media fix from Instagram because of the data abuse issues...

Mark Zuckerberg has come out and said that Facebook is going to have auditors review thousands of apps and believe this will help to deter bad actors, but it won't be able to figure out where user data is (Site detects ad blockers) or how it's being used. I don't know about anybody else, but...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal today in a Facebook post. Zuckerberg basically gave a timeline of events, starting at the creation of Facebook, leading up to the event. Zuckerberg states that "This was a breach of trust between Kogan...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Bloomberg is reporting that Facebook Inc. has lost over $60 billion in market value in just 2 days. To put that in perspective, Tesla Inc. is worth $52 billion, and Snap Inc, Snapchat's parent company is worth about $19 billion. We will just have...

Ever wonder what your data is worth to Facebook? A new article from Time shows that the average revenue per user in 2017 was $20.21, with users in Canada and the U.S worth even more because of the size of the market. They get this profit by selling insights based on how we use Facebook, and then...

Expanding on the story we covered yesterday where Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of Facebook profiles, an article from The Washington Post states that Facebook may have violated an FTC decree. The article states that two former federal officials who crafted the consent decree governing...

Variety is reporting that Blackberry has sued Facebook, as well as it's Instagram and WhatsApp subsidiaries claiming that they co-opted Blackberry's mobile-messaging technology. Blackberry alleges that Facebook and its companies created mobile-messaging applications infringe on BlackBerry...

In a report from Techdirt a German court has ruled that Facebook's real names policy violates local data protection rules. The ruling from the Berlin Regional Court states that users must be allowed to sign up for Facebook using pseudonyms to comply with privacy law. The court ruling was...

In an interview with CNBC, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes said that thinks that technology is going to "continue to destroy work." He also states that Americans who make less than $50k a year should be given a government stipend of $500 per month, as long as you are working. The boost he says...

In a report from Business Insider, Jonathan Kay, chief operating officer of app analytics firm Apptopia goes into several of the ways that app developers use to get people hooked on using them. The article is incredibly detailed, going from Instagram's push notifications, to Twitter using the...

Facebook has been trying to expand it's video streaming, edging in to YouTube's market. In an interview during Recode's Code Media conference yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was pressed about whether or not she worries about increased competition from Facebook. She said "you always have to...

This may come as a shock to you, but all the young'uns are starting to decide that Facebook is not cool any more. The digital measurement firm, eMarketer in the UK, predicted a drop in usage by the 12 to 17 year old user group in 2017 and they were only partially right. It 2017 the actual drop...

Last week we reported that Facebook was upgrading it's streaming services with a new monetization system. Now CNBC is reporting that Facebook has talked to bedia buyers to expand it's video service, "Watch" into a rival to YouTube by opening the platform to more individual creators. It sounds...

In a report from the New York Times, a group of former Facebook and Google employees aren't happy with the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, and are creating a union to fight what they helped build. The coalition is called the "Center for Humane Technology" and plans on an...

A group letter was sent from the "Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" to Mark Zuckerberg urging him to discontinue "Messenger Kids" a social media app for children under 13. "Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" is a group of 100 experts, advocates and parenting organizations...

Facebook is not liking that Twitch is pulling the huge amount of traffic it does when it come to online game streaming content, and it is now introducing the Gaming Creator Pilot Program. It is teaming up with the CS:GO Pro League and the ESL One Events team as its main broadcast partners...

Last week Facebook announced it was going to implement a system where users would be asked to complete surveys to determine the quality of news postings. Well the survey has been leaked, and it is 2 questions. "Do you recognize the following websites?" And "How much do you trust each of these...