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Google will never sell data to 3rd parties: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO
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Google will never sell data to 3rd parties: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO

Google will never sell any personal information of its users to third parties, CEO Sundar Pichai has said, amidst growing global concern over the misuse of personal data by some social media giants. In an opinion piece in The New York Times published on Tuesday, he also said that privacy cannot be a "luxury good" that is only available to people who can afford to buy premium products and services.The 46-year-old Indian-origin CEO of Google said he believed that privacy was "one of the most important topics of our time."People today are rightly concerned about how their information is used and shared, yet they all define privacy in their own ways, he said. "To make privacy real, we give you clear, meaningful choices around your data. All while staying true to two unequivocal policies:...
Whatsapp’s Last Remaining Co-Founder Exits Facebook
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Whatsapp’s Last Remaining Co-Founder Exits Facebook

Jan Koum, the co-founder of social messaging app Whatsapp announced that he was leaving Facebook, which acquired the messaging service in 2014 for $19 billion. Koum announced his decision to leave the ranks of Facebook to the public on his Facebook page, citing that he will now focus on his passions off work such as collecting air-cooled Porsches, working on cars and playing ultimate Frisbee. According to several US media outlets, the departure is mostly due to disagreements with Whatsapp’s parent company, Facebook, over the use of users’ information on the messaging service app. Indeed, reports suggest that Facebook is looking for ways to use private user information to raise income from its daughter company in ad-targeting strategies similar to those employed on Facebook and Instag...
Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages of Tesla and SpaceX
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Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages of Tesla and SpaceX

A few days ago, Whatsapp co-founder and former Facebook employee Brian Acton joined the Delete Facebook campaign by posting tweets encouraging individuals to delete their accounts on the social media website. His position against the social media website comes in the wake of Facebook’s data breach scandal with Cambridge Analytica. Elon Musk, the famous CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, shared Acton’s opinion and took to the micro blogging website to show support to the campaign. Indeed, the eccentric CEO retweeted Brian Acton’s tweet asking, “What’s Facebook?” What’s Facebook? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018 Another Twitter user then suggested Musk to delete SpaceX’s Facebook page and lived up to his words. “I didn’t realize there was one. Will do,” he replied. I didn’t real...
10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal
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10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal

Facebook has been under hot water these past few days after an investigation has been initiated against the social media website amidst reports that the world's most popular social website's user data was used to influence the 2016 US Presidential Elections result. The news shocked the world and many individuals started a twitter campaign under the hashtag #DeleteFacebook on the micro-blogging platform voicing out their opinions about the scandal. Facebook did issue an apology but it failed to convince most users. Here at Pixr8 News, we have compiled the 10 best Tweets found on the popular website.   1 This is indeed very disturbing... This Mark Zuckerberg's attitude towards your privacy. Didn't expect this ?#DeleteFacebookpic.twitter.com/3CRCyiw3jH — Ketul Madhvan...