French lawmakers on Monday approved a new tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple that has angered the United States, with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire boasting that France was proud to be in the vanguard of ...
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Apr 8, 2019
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In what seems like a broken record, Facebook is facing another scandal related to the transparency of its user data.
Internet
Apr 8, 2019
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Data produced by internet users can help to speed up the detection of earthquakes. Fast and accurate information is essential in the case of earthquakes: Epicentre location, depth and magnitude are minimum requirements to ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 3, 2019
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Networks Institute, in collaboration with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (USA) and Stony Brook University of New York (USA), have carried ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2019
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Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest promise is that his social media conglomerate will become a "privacy-focused" one. By turns lauded and lambasted, this move does not quite address users' primary problems ...
Internet
Mar 14, 2019
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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain "complete control" of their data.
Internet
Mar 11, 2019
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Facebook's feature allowing users to erase all their data is set to be released this year, many months after it was announced by the leading social network.
Internet
Feb 27, 2019
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A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday.
Internet
Feb 15, 2019
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This weeks marks 15 years since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first set up the platform with his college roommate Eduardo Saverin. Since then, Facebook has grown into a giant global enterprise.
Internet
Feb 8, 2019
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German authorities ruled Thursday that Facebook should not be allowed to use customer data from other apps and websites to help target advertisements shown on their Facebook pages without their explicit consent, saying it ...
Internet
Feb 7, 2019
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