Facebook is (partially) down

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook pages notifications and the Pages Manager application is down for more than an hour and is inaccessible to users around the world. We have…

Zuckerberg fires back at Apple CEO’s comments on privacy scandal

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Zuckerberg needs ‘a few years’ to fix Facebook’s privacy issues. Just a few more “years”. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about Facebook’s…

Snapchat just trolled Facebook in its new filter

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Snapchat just teased Facebook on 1st April, since it was April Fool’s day. This doesn’t happen often that one tech giant trolls another just for…

No more ad targeting by email attained without consent, Facebook

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Post-Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is deploying safeguards to protect user data against violation. The social media network is now to launch a certification tool, that…

Facebook exec under fire for an internal memo prioritizing company growth over user privacy

By Shehryar Ahmed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Andrew “Boz” Bozworth, the current Vice President of Virtual and Augmented Reality of Facebook, is reported to have written an internal memo detailing the outcome…

7 easy ways to protect your personal data on Facebook

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook has access to the lives of two billion people. It knows about your friendships, relationships, work, hobbies, interests and political persuasions. The recent Facebook…

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Facebook no longer allows sharing of data with third parties

By Shehryar Ahmed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Two weeks back, Facebook came under fire after a data breach scandal was uncovered by Cambridge Analytica, a British analytics firm. The firm openly accessed…

Facebook even kept the videos that you deleted, report

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook hasn’t still been able to recover fully from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, and there is this new report which says that the…

Facebook faces lawsuit over collecting SMS and call history of users

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The same way Apple’s battery throttling embarrassment lasted for a couple of months, Facebook’s data privacy scandal seems to be catching more heat in coming…

This Mozilla add-on prevents Facebook from tracking web activity

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

After the Facebook data controversy, a lot of users have been deleting their accounts or disabling the data sharing on Facebook Platform. For those who…

Data privacy scandal compels Facebook to drop its plan of unveiling smart speakers

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has long been rumored on working on its AI-powered smart speakers and may well have also planned to launch them at its F8 developer…

Mark Zuckerberg buys full-page ads, says sorry for data privacy scandal

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Founder and CEO Facebook has published full-page advertisements in several leading newspapers of UK and US, apologizing for the data privacy glitch that was…

5 reasons why you won’t be able to leave Facebook, even if you want

By Mohammad Jamal ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Facebook is an addiction! It is the center of your entire social universe and since the data breach of 50 million Facebook accounts, it has…

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