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Tag: Facebook

Investors Willing to Sell Their Facebook Shares After Data Scandal
21May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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Investors Willing to Sell Their Facebook Shares After Data Scandal

Many image conscious investment firms are selling or rethinking their Facebook Inc. shares as they grow discontent with the firm’s way of strengthening personal data protection and online safety after several scandals surfaced about the improper management of user’s information by Facebook. Backing out from the world’s largest social media network is surely the strongest response from investors to apprehensions about Facebook’s treatment of user data. Cambridge Analytica, the now shut down political data firm whose service was used by Donald Trump during the 2016 US election for ad targeting, were found guilty of harvesting data for 87 million Facebook users and is currently under probe in United States and Europe. Facebook shares also fell in the first quarter of the year when me...
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Facebook Pacts With Digital Forensic Research Lab to Fight Election Interference
18May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Facebook Pacts With Digital Forensic Research Lab to Fight Election Interference

Social Media Giant Facebook has announced a partnership with Washington based Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab in a bid to prevent its platform from being used in election meddling. The Research Lab will hold the responsibility to monitor disinformation and other vulnerabilities in elections globally, including in India. The Experts will work closely aligned with Facebook's security, policy and product teams to get in real time insights and updates on information and threats happening around the world. Katie Harbath, Global Politics and Government Outreach Director at Facebook, said, This will help increase the number of 'eyes and ears' we have working to spot potential abuse on our service - enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems, pre-empt obst...
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Facebook is Adding A Photo Cloud Storage and 2 More Features to its App
17May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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Facebook is Adding A Photo Cloud Storage and 2 More Features to its App

Facebook, the social media giant is adding three features in a new update that it believes will facilitate users “create and save memories.” The update will add features such as allowing users to create a cloud backup whereby photos and videos could be directly saved from the users’ account, sharing of voice messages with friends, and archive any Facebook Stories shared. The new features will first be available in India and will spread throughout the entire globe “shortly thereafter.” Additionally, Facebook is bringing changes to its in-app Facebook Camera as users will be able to save their images and videos on the app itself instead of their gallery. This feature has been introduced to allow users to save local internal memory on their phones, especially those with entry-level devices...
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Facebook Again Failed to Protect Data of 3 Mn Users
16May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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Facebook Again Failed to Protect Data of 3 Mn Users

Barely two months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is the subject of another data controversy as a third-party app in the form of a personality quiz, was able to collect and distribute sensitive Facebook data from over 3 million people. The data contained Facebook users’ answers for the personality trait test, and while it didn’t disclose the users’ names, it did contain their age, gender and relationship status. Additionally, status updates of over 150,000 users were exposed. The data was supposed to be shared and used among approved researchers exclusively through a specially designated website for that purpose but, reports suggest that a username and password to access the side could be found “in less than a minute” on any search engine, therefore meaning that ...
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Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”
16May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Twitter Changes Strategy to Fight “Internet Trolls”

Social Media Platform Twitter is gearing up its strategy for fighting abusive "internet trolls" by announcing that it will use behavioural signals to identify harassers on its platform and then limit their visibility of tweets. Twitter's present rules already prohibit abuse as the social media platform can block or suspend offenders once someone reports them. Even Users can mute people they find offensive. The San-Francisco based giant has been into the freewheeling discussion since the times it came to inception in 2006 trying to get rid of harassment and personal attacks that were driving people away from it. Twitter's Chief Executive Jack Dorsey informed that the company is now focusing on finding problematic accounts by examining behaviour such as how frequently people tweet a...
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Facebook Responds to Indian Government Notice over Data Breach
12May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Facebook Responds to Indian Government Notice over Data Breach

Social Media company Facebook which has been in "hot waters" for a while now has responded to Indian government's latest notice on alleged data breach outlining in detail the “changes made” to protect users’ information. The U.K based data firm, Cambridge Analytica, on the other hand, is yet to send a formal response to Government's second notice as informed by an IT official. Once the replies from both the parties get sought, a view will be taken and reviewed for examination. Meanwhile, a representative from Facebook said in an email statement, "We are committed to protecting people's information and safeguarding the integrity of elections in India." We hope we have helped to answer important questions about the changes we have made to further protect users information as well as e...
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Now Book Tickets and Order Food Using Instagram!
9May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Now Book Tickets and Order Food Using Instagram!

Popular Image sharing platform, Instagram has rolled out "call to action business" buttons that will now make ticket booking, food ordering and reservation possible as declared by the company on Wednesday. With "Instagram Direct" on board, users will be able to add these buttons to their profile that would help businesses and customers connect with the third-party partners from the platform itself. The company in its blog said, Starting today, businesses will have a better way to manage their messages. Users will be able to see important new customer messages in the main 'Direct' inbox, instead of in the pending folder. After the new rollout, users will also be able to star and filter conversations to come back to messages that they would want to follow up. Moreover, in the coming ...
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Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Messanging:Report
8May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Messanging:Report

Amidst data security concerns looming over Facebook and WhatsApp, Twitter is reportedly working on testing a new feature on its Android app that will aim at making messaging secure with end-to-end encryption. With this feature onboard, the messaging platform will roll out "Encrypted messaging" that will facilitate secret conversation allowing viewing both sides of the conversation for encryption keys to verify a secure connection. The encrypted Direct Message (DM) option was first tracked inside Twitter for APK that had codes for unreleased features that companies were testing. WhatsApp, on the other hand, is already using "end to end encryption" in all conversations which can also be opted on Messenger.   Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Secret DM! pic.twitter.com/2lL...
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Facebook Eyes to Hit Indian E-commerce Market with Marketplace
5May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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Facebook Eyes to Hit Indian E-commerce Market with Marketplace

Social Media Giant, Facebook is eyeing to enter a larger piece of country's e-commerce market which is currently gearing up a faceoff between world's largest retailers and arch-rivals Flipkart and Amazon. The company is ongoing talks with several businesses and brands to list on Facebook Marketplace. As per the sources are to be believed, it will begin testing business to customer transactions on the marketplace this month ahead of the soft launch tentatively titled to happen in June. A person familiar with the matter said: "Facebook will build more tools (on its marketplace) for businesses to upload products and manage inventory and orders, and will also add payments to it by the end of this year." The Facebook marketplace was announced in India six months ago as a consumer to co...
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All You Need to Know About Neeraj Arora- The Man Rumoured to be Next WhatsApp CEO
3May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
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All You Need to Know About Neeraj Arora- The Man Rumoured to be Next WhatsApp CEO

While we have already reported exit of Jan Koum, the co-founder of social media messaging app WhatsApp leaving Facebook, the market is now buzzing with news regarding who could be the next CEO of the major technology giant. If reports are to be believed another Indian and a former Google employee "Neeraj Arora" could head the cross-messaging platform and is being considered for the top position. Company's "All Thing Business Guy", Neeraj Arora is an IIT graduate with a degree from the Indian School of Business. He gave up his prestigious top hierarchy job at M&A at Google to become a part of one of the hottest Silicon Valley Startups.   Neeraj started his career with a cloud solutions company in 2000, Accellion right after graduation and was one of the earliest engin...
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Facebook Data Scandal Firm Cambridge Analytica is Shutting Down
3May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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Facebook Data Scandal Firm Cambridge Analytica is Shutting Down

Cambridge Analytica, the British political consulting firm that was severely criticized and blamed responsible for extracting personal information from over 87 million Facebook users for ad targeting during the 2016 US Elections, announced that it was shutting down the company. The company still claims innocence to the allegations but states that the reason for shutting down operations is due to the negative media coverage that made it lose its clientele as well as the excessive legal fees it has to pay due to the scandal it got involved in. “Despite Cambridge Analytica’s unwavering confidence that its employees have acted ethically and lawfully, the siege of media coverage has driven away virtually all of the company’s customers and suppliers,” the company released in a statement. “As ...
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