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Cambridge Analytica Closes Doors After Facebook Data Harvesting Scandal

News Privacy and Security Social Media May 3, 2018

The data gathering firm at the epicenter of Facebook privacy row has closed its offices and started insolvency proceedings. Cambridge Analytica, has announced in a statement it is closing its business down after fighting months of accusations that it improperly obtained the personal information of thousands of Facebook users... Read more

Cambridge Researcher May Sue Facebook Over Data Breach Allegations

Business News Social Media April 27, 2018

Aleksandr Kogan considers his position in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The recent Facebook data breach–which Facebook has taken great pains to point out was not a typical data breach–has metaphorically opened a lot of people’s eyes to how their data is gathered, stored, and used by... Read more

Facebook Moves Millions Of Users Data To US To Avoid European Privacy Laws

News Social Media April 26, 2018

Zuckerberg’s promise to uphold ‘spirit’ of new EU data protection rules quietly put to the side just days after making it… The social media giant, Facebook has begun moving user data from its servers in Ireland back to the USA in order to avoid having to comply with new... Read more

Weibo Reverses Gay ‘Clean-Up’ Ban After Online Public Backlash

Internet News Social Media April 20, 2018

Popular Chinese social media platform had targeted content that it deemed ‘illegal’ including ‘videos with pornographic implications, promoting violence or (related to) homosexuality’. Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites, stated that the new guidelines were solely put in place to “create a bright and harmonious community... Read more

Russian Government Tries To Ban Telegram Encrypted Privacy App

Mobile News Social Media April 10, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian state’s communications authority and regulator, moves to block Telegram messaging service after company refuses to hand over decryption keys to private messages. The state agency had ordered Telegram to provide back door keys to all of its encrypted messages. The request was denied by the tech giant, partly... Read more

Tinder Brings Pizazz To Profiles With Loops Video

News Social Media April 5, 2018

New two-second videos offer GIF-like feature for dating app. Online dating has gone from a “path of last resort” for desperate singles looking to cast a broader net to becoming the go-to way to meet like-minded and romantically interested people. It’s a multi-billion dollar a year industry with fierce... Read more

EU Knows Facebook Has A Privacy Problem

News Privacy and Security Social Media March 23, 2018

Upcoming GDPR rules mean data compliance will be mandatory. In the digital age, information is the new hot-ticket currency. Often, companies, third-parties, and even cybercriminals would rather get their hands on users’ data than money, since the potential payoff from having access to sensitive information could be exponentially higher... Read more

Are We Finally Doing Something About Facebook?

News Social Media March 22, 2018

Cambridge Analytica scandal brings focus onto data privacy issues. For all of his squeaky clean, boy next door, All-American good looks and charm, Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the man that the public loves to hate, all thanks to piles of allegations that Facebook aided outside operatives who were... Read more

Study Finds Fake News Travels Faster Than The Truth

Internet News Social Media March 15, 2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology research studied 126,000 fake Twitter ‘stories’. A famous quote often attributed to Mark Twain is the one that goes “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. Twain apparently wrote that in 1919. His death almost a... Read more

Record Number Of “Swipe Rights” At 2018 Olympics

Mobile News Social Media March 5, 2018

Things got hot at this year’s Winter Olympics. The Olympic games are about national pride, gold medal achievements, record-breaking athletic accomplishments, and, well, hooking up. Each year, regardless of venue, the Olympic Village that hosts most of the athletes distributes in the neighborhood of 100,000 condoms to the athletes,... Read more

Facebook Ordered To Stop Tracking Web Users In Belgium

News Social Media February 21, 2018

Facebook dramatically loses lawsuit and could end up facing total fines of some $156,000,000 (100 million euro) if it continues to break the country’s privacy laws by tracking its users on third-party websites. The high profile case against the social-media giant was brought by Belgium’s privacy watchdog, who claimed... Read more

Facebook Reveals It’s Officially Testing ‘Downvote’ Button

News Social Media February 19, 2018

Facebook has admitted that is officially testing out a ‘downvote’ button in a new system similar to the one that Reddit and other social media sites have been using for years. The ‘downvote’ option suddenly appeared in several users feeds last week in the comments section of posts within Facebook... Read more

Logan Paul Won’t Be Banned From YouTube

News Social Media February 16, 2018

The controversial YouTube ‘star’ Logan Paul hasn’t done enough yet to deserve to be banned from YouTube, the video sharing site’s Chief Executive Officer has said. Logan Paul has been severely criticized in recent months for the content shown in videos he has created and shared on the site,... Read more

Reddit Joins Other Site To Ban ‘DeepFake’ Involuntary Porn

News Social Media February 10, 2018

Reddit has become the latest on-line platform to remove and ban high quality fake pornographic material from its website. Reddit introduced its new rules banning the uploading, and sharing of what it referred to as involuntary pornography. The site joins several other well known digital brands such as Twitter, Gyfcat and... Read more

Facebook Loses 700,000 Users In USA For First Time

News Social Media February 2, 2018

New data reveals a decline in both the amount of time people are spending on Facebook , and a near one million drop in users from North America and Canada. For the first time EVER Facebook has experienced a drop in user numbers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the reduction in numbers was inevitable, as... Read more

Twitch Spammer Faces Criminal Charges In Canada

News Social Media January 26, 2018

A Canadian man accused of spamming the popular streaming site ‘Twitch’ with a torrent of racist and homophobic messages has found himself in court facing criminal charges. The suspect, Brandan Lukas Apple, is facing ‘Unprecedented’ Mischief Charges, and if convicted, could end up in prison. Mr Apple is accused of... Read more

YouTube Changes Ad Rules To Appease Big Money Advertisers

News Social Media January 17, 2018

And puts smaller content creators out in the cold in the process. YouTube has announced it will be introducing tougher requirements for video publishers who want to make money from its platform, from February, 2018. The changes to YouTube’s advertising rules as well as being a response to the... Read more

The Responsibility Of #Complicit Social Media

News Social Media January 11, 2018

Latest projection protest involves the #complicit hashtag and Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey. There has been a lot of talk in recent months about news outlets, social media responsibility, and online speech. “Fake news” is the insult du jour for any reports that go against one’s views, while... Read more

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