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Facebook Users Care Less About Privacy Than Regulators
Facebook Inc is preparing for a record-setting fine from US regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the looming penalty after the company added users and trounced profit expectations for the first quarter.
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Facebook Launches User Review, Potential Bans For Advertisers
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would allow users to review businesses that advertise on the social network and possibly ban those that receive the most negative feedback.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Long Resisted Going To Congress. Now He'll Face A 'Reckoning,' Lawmakers Say
When Mark Zuckerberg testifies to the U.S. Congress next week, the Facebook chief executive will face off with lawmakers who have long been itching to confront him - on everything from a privacy mishap involving 87 million users to a litany of issues that have dogged the company for years.
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Facebook backs down over contact info controversy
Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users' addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site.Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates.The ne...
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Now, Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook
Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social network Facebook amid demands by a radical organisation to ban the website for hurting sentiments of Muslims.No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity said that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regu...
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Facebook changes privacy tools
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook on Thursday overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook's 26-year-old CE...
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Facebook Users Care Less About Privacy Than Regulators
Facebook Inc is preparing for a record-setting fine from US regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the looming penalty after the company added users and trounced profit expectations for the first quarter.
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Facebook Launches User Review, Potential Bans For Advertisers
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would allow users to review businesses that advertise on the social network and possibly ban those that receive the most negative feedback.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Long Resisted Going To Congress. Now He'll Face A 'Reckoning,' Lawmakers Say
When Mark Zuckerberg testifies to the U.S. Congress next week, the Facebook chief executive will face off with lawmakers who have long been itching to confront him - on everything from a privacy mishap involving 87 million users to a litany of issues that have dogged the company for years.
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Facebook backs down over contact info controversy
Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users' addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site.Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates.The ne...
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Now, Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook
Bangladesh on Saturday temporarily blocked the social network Facebook amid demands by a radical organisation to ban the website for hurting sentiments of Muslims.No official comment was immediately available for the closure of the popular network. However, an official source on condition of anonymity said that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regu...
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Facebook changes privacy tools
Amid mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust of its users, world's largest social networking site Facebook on Thursday overhauled its privacy controls under which the amount of information that is always visible to others will be reduced.In an hour-long news conference at its Palo Alto headquarters in California, Facebook's 26-year-old CE...
