Business & Tech EU Agency Issues Meta Largest-Ever Fine Over Data Privacy, Orders Company to Stop Exporting User Data to US Facebook/Meta has just hit with a huge fine and a suspension order by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) over its practice of exporting EU user data to its US offices, which is in violation of EU law.
SF News Leaked Facebook Document Suggests Plan To Target Ads To Teens Feeling 'Worthless' And 'Insecure' A leaked document from Facebook's Australia office, marked confidential and authored by two Australian Facebook executives, purported to show potential advertisers how to target to teens as young as 14 when they were
SF News Facebook, Google, Other Tech Companies Reveal Vague Outlines Of NSA Surveillance Requests In a group of simultaneous and totally cryptic public reports, tech companies including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple all disclosed for the first time Monday the scope and number of requests they responded
SF News Facebook Sued For Creeping On Your Private Messages On Thursday, two concerned Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the social media mammoth, alleging they violated users' privacy by scanning individual members' private messages in order to gather data to use for
SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Neighboring Houses So He Can Set His Own Privacy Settings Silicon Valley boy king Mark Zuckerberg dropped $30 million total over the past nine months to buy up four houses surrounding his five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg reportedly snatched up the homes
SF News Facebook Dating Ad Features Girl Who Committed Suicide Oops. Facebook had another little PR snafu this week when it was discovered that an ad being promoted on the site by an online dating concern featured the image of a dead girl.
SF News Hacker Updates Zuckerberg's Facebook Wall With Extremely Nerdy Status Last week, Palestinian security expert Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook's security team to a hole in the social network's privacy settings, only to be met with tech support crickets. So Shreateh decided
