San Francisco: Facebook on Friday alerted employees that hard drives rich with information about those on the social network's payroll were stolen from a car last month. "We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information," Facebook said in response to an AFP inquiry. "This...
Boris Johnson, Scotland, Facebook: Your Friday Briefing
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F.T.C. Said to Consider Injunction Against Facebook
Such an action would seek to block a technical integration of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, people familiar with the matter said....
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Facebook says it won't break end-to-end encryption
Facebook executives have told US Attorney General William Barr that they won't add backdoors to their messaging apps....
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Facebook Won't Let US, Australia, UK Get Toe in Backdoor
Facebook has rejected a request from the U.S., the UK and Australia for a "backdoor" in its encrypted messenger apps to help law enforcement agencies combat crime and terrorism. "Cybersecurity experts have repeatedly proven that when you weaken any part of an encrypted system, you weaken it for everyone, everywhere," wrote WhatsApp head Will Cathcart and Facebook Messenger head Stan...
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Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages
With 1.5 billion users, Facebook’s WhatsApp is perhaps the world’s most commonly used encrypted communications platform....
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E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
The Texas-based company reportedly sold just 350 of its $699 commuter scooters....
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General Election 2019: Has your local Facebook group been hijacked by politics?
Up and down the UK, moderators are grappling with an upsurge in political debate....
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Podcasts and Travel Apps? Facebook Is Working on Those
The social network is exploring new product areas through a team dedicated to building the company’s future....
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Facebook chatbot offers to answer tricky questions
Employees get a chatbot to help them answer relatives' questions over the holidays....
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EU Digital Czar to Probe Facebook's and Google's Data Wrangling
The European Union has launched a probe into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use and monetize data for advertising purposes. The European Commission has begun distributing questionnaires as part of a preliminary investigation into Google's and Facebook's data practices. Facebook and Google join Amazon as targets of the EU's "digital czar," Margrethe Vestager....
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Sex Trafficking via Facebook Sets Off a Lawyer’s Novel Crusade
A personal-injury lawyer in Houston is using an unusual argument to try to upend the internet’s most vital law....