If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations which can then steal that data for their own nefarious purposes,...
Facebook’s VP of global affairs and communications, Nick Clegg, today said the social network — likely in response to pressure from European officials — is “open”...
Facebook is cracking down on services that promise to help Instagram users buy themselves a large following on the photo app. The social network said today...
Third time lucky — unless you’re Facebook . The social networking giant was hit by a trio of investigations over its privacy practices Thursday following a...
Social media-fuelled anti-vaxxer propaganda is the latest online harm the U.K. government is targeting. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning health secretary Matt...
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The latest damning assessment of Facebook’s trampling of user privacy comes from the Canadian and Columbia privacy commissioners — which have just published the results of...
Want your video game character to look just like you? Soon you’ll be able to scan an in-game code with Snapchat to play as your personalized...
You might think it’s redundant with Instagram Stories, or just don’t want to see high school friends’ boring lives, but ephemeral Snapchat-style Stories now have 500...
An Indian state court has reversed its ban on TikTok, allowing the short video app to return to both Apple and Google’s app stores, according to...
