Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers.
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Forbud mot Meta om bruk av persondata utvides til hele EØS
https://nrkbeta.no/2023/10/31/forbud-mot-meta-om-bruk-av-persondata-utvides-til-hele-eos/
Datatilsynet vant frem hos Personvernrådet i EU. Tilsynets forbud utvides til flere land.
– Dette er en historisk dag for personvernet, skriver direktør i Datatilsynet Line Coll i en uttalelse til NRK.Datatilsynet beordret i sommer Meta å stanse bruken av nordmenns persondata til adferdsbasert reklame.
Teknologikjempen, som eier Facebook og Instagram, har siden august fått én million i daglige bøter for å ikke følge vedtaket.
Siden har tilsynet bedt Personvernrådet i EU (EDPB) om en bindende hastebeslutning. Denne beslutningen gjør tilsynets vedtak permanent og gjeldende for hele EØS-området. Tidligere gjaldt vedtaket kun for Norge og kun for en midlertidig periode.
Meanings of the metaverse: Productizing reality | ROUGH TYPE
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935
Facebook, it’s now widely accepted, has been a calamity for the world. The obvious solution, most people would agree, is to get rid of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has a different idea: Get rid of the world.
Datatilsynet vant frem i Oslo tingrett mot Meta
https://nrkbeta.no/2023/09/06/datatilsynet-vant-frem-i-oslo-tingrett-mot-meta/
Tidligere i august møttes Datatilsynet og Meta i Oslo tingrett for å avgjøre om teknologigiganten må følge et vedtak om å betale dagsbøter på én million kroner. Det skjer etter at Datatilsynet i sommer beordret Meta, som eier Facebook og Instagram, å stoppe bruken av persondata til såkalt adferdsbasert markedsføring inntil selskapet gjør det på en lovlig måte.
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/norway-meta-fine-user-privacy-breach-targeted-ads
Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent | The Guardian
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sites
Facebook to be fined £648m for mishandling user information | Facebook | The Guardian
Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules
Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal
https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal
the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR
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The DSBs decision to declare Google Analytics illegal, also applies to the “Facebook Login” and “Meta Pixel” tools provided by Meta: If these tools are used, data is inevitably transferred to the USA, where the data is at risk of intelligence surveillance. European website operators are therefore advised not to include any tools from Meta on their websites.
Powerful Meta large language model widely available online - CyberScoop
https://cyberscoop.com/meta-large-language-model-available-online/
A set of sophisticated large language models developed by Facebook parent company Meta — and intended to be accessed only by authorized researchers — were made available for download on Friday, releasing to the public the most powerful such AI model yet and increasing the likelihood that the technology might be misused.
I don’t want to log in to your website - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell
There is a new trend among websites where they want my email address before I’m allowed to read their free content. While I sympathize with the struggles of the media business, I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is easier than reading — and way easier than logging in.
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And confidential to Substack: if I have clicked into a newsletter on the web, blocking my view of the thing I’m trying to read with a subscription pop-up isn’t going to make me more likely to subscribe. It just means I’m probably not going to read the newsletter.
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? - MIT Technology Review
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
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The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.
Meta dealt blow by EU ruling that could result in data use ‘opt-in’ - Meta - The Guardian
“This is a huge blow to Meta’s profits in the EU,” he said. “People now need to be asked if they want their data to be used for ads or not. They must have a ‘yes or no’ option and can change their mind at any time.
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause
Facebook removes ‘deepfake’ of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy - The Verge
In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion
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The deepfake appears to have been first broadcasted on a Ukrainian news website for TV24 after an alleged hack
Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over Myanmar violence - Reuters
over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate speech that contributed to violence.
In 2018, U.N. human rights investigators said the use of Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech that fueled the violence.
This thought experiment captures Facebook’s betrayal of users’ privacy - Richard Ashby Wilson - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/03/thought-experiment-facebook-betrayal-privacy
Imagine if the postman read your mail and then sold your information to extremists who want to target you
Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. - WSJ
How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296
Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO’s ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site and using Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt about the Covid-19 vaccine
Facebook Is Starting to Roll Out Ads in Its Oculus VR Headsets Because of Course It Is — Pixel Envy
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/oculus-ads/
Facebook is an advertising company. From the moment it bought Oculus in 2014, there were questions about whether it was going to be used as yet another place where we cannot escape from companies trying to sell us crap — so much so that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey promised in a Reddit Q&A that the headsets would not be used for advertising. Imagine my surprise when, under its creepy ad company ownership, that is turning out to be untrue.
WhatsApp clarifies privacy practices after surge in Signal and Telegram users - The Verge
The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update
the change is designed to outline how businesses who use WhatsApp for customer service may store logs of its chats on Facebook servers.