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Facebook Profile Lock: How to Lock Your FB Profile on Mobile, Desktop, Benefits, and More
Facebook Profile Lock is a privacy feature that limits access to your posts, photos, and personal details to only your friends. Strangers will only see a reduced version of your profile. You can enable it on mobile or desktop in a few simple steps. If needed, you can unlock your profile anytime to restore previous settings. This guide covers everyt...
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Facebook Users Have 1 Month Left To Claim Part Of $725 Million Settlement
Facebook users in the US can apply for their share of a $ 725 million privacy settlement that the social media platform's parent company Meta agreed to pay last year.
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Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data Scraping
Facebook has been hit with a EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator on Monday. The watchdog was investigating the scraping of personal data that was found in a data set from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019. This is the fourth fine that the DPC has imposed on one of Meta's companies, and the r...
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Google, Meta Fined Over $71 Million In South Korea Over Privacy Violations
South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than $71 million collectively for gathering users' personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country's highest-ever data protection fines.
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"Take It Or Leave Situation For Users": Court On Whatsapp Privacy Policy
The Delhi High Court has held that WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy places its users in a "take it or leave it" situation, virtually forcing them into an agreement by providing a "mirage" of choices
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Facebook's Updated Privacy Policy From Next Month
Social media platform Meta, formerly Facebook, has started sending out notification to users about privacy policy update which it will roll out from July 26, the company said on Thursday.
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Facebook Lacks Information on Collected User Data, Including How It Is Used: Leaked Document Shows
Facebook is reportedly unable to identify where most of the data it collects from its users is located, or how it is used within the company, a leaked document reveals. The report was created by privacy engineers on Facebook’s Ad and Business Product, and details the challenges the company could face in complying with various privacy regulations ...
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All EU Countries Can Tackle Facebook On Privacy: Court
All EU countries can press Facebook on the bloc's data privacy rules, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday.
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Facebook to Pay $650 Million in US Privacy Lawsuit Settlement
Facebook has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a privacy lawsuit in the US over allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.
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Facebook Faces Parliament Panel Over WhatsApp Policy, Social Media Misuse
Facebook executives will field questions from a parliamentary panel on Thursday about the changes to WhatsApp's privacy, news agency Reuters reported citing sources, days after the messaging platform was asked by the government to withdraw them.
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How to Switch Off Your ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ Tracking From Website and App
Here’s a step-by-step guide to turn off the ‘off-Facebook activity’ tracking. Facebook wants to show you personalised and targeted ads. But for that, it not just takes your data from its social networking site or app — alongside its subsidiaries including Instagram and WhatsApp — but also from various third parties. For this, you can chec...
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Canada Fines Facebook Over Misleading Privacy Claims
As part of the settlement, Facebook has agreed not to make false or misleading representations about the disclosure of personal information, and pay the Competition Bureau's CAD 500,000 (roughly Rs. 2.71 crores) investigation costs.
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Payroll Data Of 29,000 Facebook Employees Stolen From Car
Facebook on Friday alerted employees that hard drives rich with information about those on the social network's payroll were stolen from a car last month.
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Facebook View On Privacy "So Wrong", Says US Judge, Lets Class Action Proceed
A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy "so wrong."
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US States Announce Antitrust Probe Of Facebook
A coalition of US states announced Friday an antitrust investigation of Facebook to determine if the social media giant has hindered competition and put users at risk.
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Facebook Profile Lock: How to Lock Your FB Profile on Mobile, Desktop, Benefits, and More
Facebook Profile Lock is a privacy feature that limits access to your posts, photos, and personal details to only your friends. Strangers will only see a reduced version of your profile. You can enable it on mobile or desktop in a few simple steps. If needed, you can unlock your profile anytime to restore previous settings. This guide covers everyt...
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Facebook Users Have 1 Month Left To Claim Part Of $725 Million Settlement
Facebook users in the US can apply for their share of a $ 725 million privacy settlement that the social media platform's parent company Meta agreed to pay last year.
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Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data Scraping
Facebook has been hit with a EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator on Monday. The watchdog was investigating the scraping of personal data that was found in a data set from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019. This is the fourth fine that the DPC has imposed on one of Meta's companies, and the r...
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Google, Meta Fined Over $71 Million In South Korea Over Privacy Violations
South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than $71 million collectively for gathering users' personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country's highest-ever data protection fines.
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"Take It Or Leave Situation For Users": Court On Whatsapp Privacy Policy
The Delhi High Court has held that WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy places its users in a "take it or leave it" situation, virtually forcing them into an agreement by providing a "mirage" of choices
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Facebook's Updated Privacy Policy From Next Month
Social media platform Meta, formerly Facebook, has started sending out notification to users about privacy policy update which it will roll out from July 26, the company said on Thursday.
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Facebook Lacks Information on Collected User Data, Including How It Is Used: Leaked Document Shows
Facebook is reportedly unable to identify where most of the data it collects from its users is located, or how it is used within the company, a leaked document reveals. The report was created by privacy engineers on Facebook’s Ad and Business Product, and details the challenges the company could face in complying with various privacy regulations ...
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All EU Countries Can Tackle Facebook On Privacy: Court
All EU countries can press Facebook on the bloc's data privacy rules, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday.
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Facebook to Pay $650 Million in US Privacy Lawsuit Settlement
Facebook has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a privacy lawsuit in the US over allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.
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Facebook Faces Parliament Panel Over WhatsApp Policy, Social Media Misuse
Facebook executives will field questions from a parliamentary panel on Thursday about the changes to WhatsApp's privacy, news agency Reuters reported citing sources, days after the messaging platform was asked by the government to withdraw them.
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How to Switch Off Your ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ Tracking From Website and App
Here’s a step-by-step guide to turn off the ‘off-Facebook activity’ tracking. Facebook wants to show you personalised and targeted ads. But for that, it not just takes your data from its social networking site or app — alongside its subsidiaries including Instagram and WhatsApp — but also from various third parties. For this, you can chec...
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Canada Fines Facebook Over Misleading Privacy Claims
As part of the settlement, Facebook has agreed not to make false or misleading representations about the disclosure of personal information, and pay the Competition Bureau's CAD 500,000 (roughly Rs. 2.71 crores) investigation costs.
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Payroll Data Of 29,000 Facebook Employees Stolen From Car
Facebook on Friday alerted employees that hard drives rich with information about those on the social network's payroll were stolen from a car last month.
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Facebook View On Privacy "So Wrong", Says US Judge, Lets Class Action Proceed
A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy "so wrong."
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US States Announce Antitrust Probe Of Facebook
A coalition of US states announced Friday an antitrust investigation of Facebook to determine if the social media giant has hindered competition and put users at risk.
