Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram
Meta has taken down a whopping number of Instagram accounts directly involved in sextortion and more accounts aimed at training scammers
Meta has taken down a whopping number of Instagram accounts directly involved in sextortion and more accounts aimed at training scammers
Meta will retire social media tracking tool CrowdTangle in August 2024, which is awkward timing given the amount of important elections this year.
Meta has won a court case against spyware vendor NSO Group to reveal the Pegasus spyware code that allows spying on WhatsApp users.
Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: Youtube Tags: TikTok Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads. |
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Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: xAI Tags: copyright Tags: tweets Social media companies are showing their hand about scraping user data to feed into their AI and large language models. |
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Categories: Personal Tags: metaverse Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: VR Tags: AR Tags: XR Tags: reality Tags: virtual reality Tags: privacy Tags: safety We take a look at the privacy implications of the Metaverse. |
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Categories: Personal Tags: metaverse Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: VR Tags: AR Tags: XR Tags: reality Tags: virtual reality Tags: privacy Tags: safety We take a look at the privacy implications of the Metaverse. |
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Categories: News Tags: Ivanti Tags: Meta Tags: Teams Tags: ransomware rollback Tags: AMP Tags: Minecraft Tags: Barracuda A list of topics we covered in the week of July 31 to August 6 of 2023 |
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Categories: Personal Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: EU Tags: legal Tags: litigation Tags: behavioural Tags: advertising Tags: tracking We take a look at what appears to be the beginning of the end for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe. |
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Categories: Business Tags: VPN Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: data Tags: disclosure Tags: australia Tags: australian Tags: traffic We take a look at reports that Meta subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a sizeable fine relating to disclosure issues for a now discontinued VPN. |
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