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California Data Privacy Proposal Could Get Even Tougher
Feb 25 2019 // The strongest data privacy law in the country may be about to get sharper teeth, and lobbyists representing the tech industry think it’s a disastrous idea. Companies that amass user data could be the target of mass...
New York Governor Orders Investigation Into Facebook’s Access to User Data
Feb 25 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a media report that Facebook Inc may be accessing far more personal information than previously known from smartphone users, including...
Facebook Broke Data Privacy Rules, so Self-Regulation Must End: UK Lawmakers
Feb 19 2019 // Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new regulator to protect democracy and citizens’ rights, British lawmakers said on...
FTC Privacy Settlement Over Cambridge Analytica Could Cost Facebook Billions
Feb 19 2019 // Facebook Inc. is in talks with U.S. regulators over alleged privacy violations that could force the social-media giant to pay billions of dollars in a record-breaking settlement, according to two people familiar with the...
U.S. Privacy Regulation Tested by Facebook Scandals
Jan 24 2019 // Facebook Inc.’s repeated privacy scandals have infuriated users, lawmakers and data-security advocates who are clamoring for a forceful government response. That job mainly falls to Joe Simons, who is under pressure...
Use Social Media to Engage Customers While Enhancing Your Other Advertising Programs
Jan 23 2019 // Struggling to Engage Customers? If you are like many insurance agencies, you might be struggling to figure out how social media can help engage your customers while enhancing your other advertising programs. As an...
Online Sleuthing Skills Help in Wake of California Wildfire
Dec 11 2018 // They have become known as the Angels of Paradise. But there is nothing ethereal about them. They are online sleuths who know how to find people, and they have been putting their skills to use in the aftermath of...
Emails Released in U.K. Probe Show How Facebook Wielded Users’ Data
Dec 7 2018 // Facebook Inc. wielded user data like a bargaining chip, providing access when that sharing might encourage people to spend more time on the social network — and imposing strict limits on partners in cases where it...
U.S. Multinationals Flee No-Tax Caribbean Havens, in Favor of Low-Tax Havens
Nov 15 2018 // Many U.S. multinational corporations have packed up or are choosing to open subsidiaries in low-tax, rather than no-tax, countries that are seen as more legitimate than the formerly popular island destinations of the...
Facebook Facing Another Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misleading Advertising Claims
Oct 17 2018 // Facebook Inc. knew in early 2015 that it misled advertisers about the average time users spent viewing online video clips — and then lied about it, according to a lawsuit. The owner of the world’s largest...
FBI, Global Regulators Investigating Facebook’s Largest-Ever Data Breach
Oct 15 2018 // Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its largest-ever data theft...
Google+ Questioned Over Keeping Mum About Exposed Data on 500K Users
Oct 8 2018 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing on Monday that private profile data of at least 500,000 users may...
Texas Survivor’s Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Enabling Human Traffickers
Oct 4 2018 // A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into...
What Comes Next in Facebook’s Major Data Breach
Oct 2 2018 // For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next? For the owners of the affected accounts, and of another 40 million...
50 Million Facebook Accounts Exposed to Takeover in Huge Breach
Sep 30 2018 // Facebook Inc. said on Friday that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in its worst security breach ever given the unprecedented level of potential access, adding to...
EU Lawmakers Agree on Internet Copyright Reforms in Blow to Tech Giants
Sep 12 2018 // Tech platforms and internet activists protested the outcome of a European Parliament vote Wednesday to back copyright rules that would help video, music and other rights holders seek compensation for use of their content...
Facebook Says Community Help Feature Ready to Assist Florence Recovery Efforts
Sep 10 2018 // After a relatively slow start to the 2018 season, three hurricanes are now churning in the Atlantic on potential tracks toward the U.S. east coast and the Caribbean. Ahead of Hurricane Florence’s projected landfall...
Facebook, Twitter Face Lawmakers Over Liability, Privacy, Regulation
Sep 6 2018 // The more U.S. lawmakers learn about how Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. work, the more they want to know. In the latest congressional hearings on misinformation and election interference, which featured first-time...
New World of Digital Recruiting: Chatbots, Videos and Social Media
Aug 23 2018 // Long gone are the days when employees printed their resumes and cover letters on fancy paper, worried about choosing the proper font, and put both documents in the mail. The idea of employers printing paper job...
India Weighs Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill, Similar to EU’s GDPR
Jul 31 2018 // A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the transfer and storage of information on more than 1 billion people by global technology corporations...
