Business & Tech Facebook Will Now Let You Opt Out Of Having Your Every Move Tracked Online Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Business & Tech FBI Seeks Contractor To Harvest Facebook and Twitter Data To Identify Potential Shooters, Terrorists The FBI put out a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor that will trawl social media to identify potential threats to American interests — something that Facebook and Twitter explicitly prohibit any third party from doing.
SF News Facebook Faces Uphill Battle In Washington For Its Libra Crypto Project It's not looking like it will be an easy road for Facebook in Washington with its launch of Libra, now that they've decided to move into FinTech in a year in which distrust of Facebook is at an all-time high.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Fined $5 Billion By The FTC Mayor Breed says she'll be "monitoring the situation" with the pending ICE raids, a Muni train collided with a car and injured some passengers, and a homicide investigation shuts down a neighborhood in San Jose.
SF News Sarin Scare At Facebook HQ Apparently A False Alarm The major hazmat response and drama Monday in Menlo Park was allegedly much ado about nothing, but what would cause a screening machine to come back with a positive test for sarin?
SF News Facebook Evacuates Several Buildings After Possible Sarin Gas Exposure In Menlo Park A suspicious package mailed to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park was flagged by a screening machine as possibly containing sarin gas.
Business & Tech Facebook Unveils Details On Its Crypto Coin, Libra, And Its Plan To Track Every Dollar We Spend It's been the buzz of Crypto Twitter and tech blogs for months, but today we have details of Facebook's next step toward world domination — and the next move that's most definitely going to raise eyebrows among regulators in Washington.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi And Clinton Slam Facebook Over Altered Videos Some more details on that rampaging vehicle in the 'Loin yesterday, a San Mateo County couple is accused of human trafficking, and the Transbay Transit Center won't be opening until July.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zuckerberg Needs The Winklevoss Twins' Crypto Help Dismemberment suspects were arrested in China, Berkeley is cleared in homeless civil rights case, and Glass Door is moving into downtown SF.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
Business & Tech Kamala Harris Wants To Make Twitter and Facebook Accountable For Hate Speech Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said over the weekend that she wants to hold social media companies responsible for allowing radicalization and hate speech on their platforms.
Business & Tech Facebook In Talks With Dozens Of Financial Firms About Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency As has been rumored on the tech blogs for months, Facebook is reportedly working to create its own cryptocurrency, and now we know the name of the covert project: Project Libra.
Business & Tech Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion By The FTC For Its Mishandling Of Data The fine, expected to be between $3 billion and $5 billion, is potentially more firm back-hand thwack that it is a wrist-slap, as such fines have mostly been in the past.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Shut Off In Sri Lanka Following Terror Attacks After Sunday's deadly suicide bombings that killed nearly 300 people, the government of Sri Lanka shut off nationwide access to most social media sites and apps citing safety concerns and the spread of false news reports.
Business & Tech Facebook Algorithm Purposely Played Up Stories About Politics, Crime, and Tragedy While Mark Zuckerberg was talking out one side of his mouth in January 2018 about encouraging more "meaningful interactions" with friends and family, Facebook was simultaneously tweaking its News Feed algorithm to display more posts on the topics of "politics, crime, or tragedy."
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Welcoming Congress To Regulate Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest masterstroke is to shift blame for all the election meddling and harmful content on the internet onto the government, rather than on Facebook.
Business & Tech Facebook Has Decided That 'White Nationalist' And 'White Separatist' Are Just Two Ways to Say 'Racist' On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it's changing its content moderation policy surrounding the categories of "white nationalism" and "white separatism," acknowledging that these are no different than white supremacy.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
SF News Report: Facebook Facing Criminal Investigation Into Massive Data-Sharing Deals Oops, something went wrong — and this criminal probe might be the mother of all Facebook scandals.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Suddenly Thinks Facebook Should Be A 'Privacy-Focused Platform' After a year in which his company's unscrupulous depths were revealed when it comes to mining and monetizing users' data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the future is about privacy.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Reportedly Receiving Mounds of Sensitive Health Data Via Third-Party Apps Without Your Knowledge After a year of especially terrible press, growing government scrutiny, and eroding public affection, Facebook is staring down yet another potential scandal involving sensitive user data.
SF News Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision Many of tech's biggest companies are banding together to resist President Trump's stated decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Per CNet's report, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
SF News The 14 Stereotypes That Facebook Assigns To All Of Us The company that invented the motto “Move fast and break things” certainly managed to break things pretty good during the 2016 election, promoting Russian troll-farm fake news content to as many as 126
