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Microsoft Corporation, the tech giant, announced that it is planning to extend the rights of the European Union’s new data privacy law to its global customers and not exclusively to users from European territory. The law comes after tech companies such as Facebook were found guilty of sharing personal user data to third parties for ad-targeting. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will come in full effect as from today and aims to give internet users a better control of how companies use their personal data. Moreover, tech companies will have to comply to a rigid protocol on how they store personal users’ data and how they share it with third parties. “As an EU regulation, GDPR creates important new rights specifically for individuals in the European Union. But we believe ...

Facebook, the social media giant still caught in the midst of a data breach scandal, announced today that it will conduct a series of public events across several countries, including India as an initiative to improve and refine its community standard guidelines. The social media company announced that it was revising its internal enforcement guidelines to its users on Tuesday and the major innovation is that users can now challenge decisions of the company to remove photos, videos or posts it believes to violate community standards. “We decided to publish these internal guidelines for two reasons. First, the guidelines will help people understand where we draw the line on nuanced issues. Second, providing these details makes it easier for everyone, including experts in different fie...

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Facebook and Instagram Revise Community Guidelines and Policy