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The stand-alone app on childrens devices can be controlled by a parents Facebook account that will allow kids to use video chat and send photos, videos or text messages to friends approved by their parents.

Technology

Privacy issues emerge as major business risk for Facebook

Shares in Facebook fell on March 19 by 7 per cent, their biggest drop since 2014.

20 March 2018 9:07 AM IST

Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak. (Photo: Pixabay)

Technology

Facebook critics want regulation, investigation after data misuse

Facebook insisted the data was misused but not stolen, because users gave permission.

18 March 2018 11:18 AM IST

All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled Protecting Your Information. It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Technology

Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information

A Twitter said Facebook's security engineer is

3 May 2018 10:54 AM IST

$Facebook on Thursday admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were \potentially affected\ by its global data breach.$ Technology

Facebook bids to keep data privacy case from EU's top court

A Facebook lawyer asked for the referral to be delayed to allow Ireland's Supreme Court to decide if it would accept an...

1 May 2018 11:58 AM IST

Scrutiny of Facebook has intensified following reports that it failed to prevent the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica from amassing personal information about millions of users - possibly used to aid Donald Trumps campaign - and that the social network has been collecting Android users phone call and text message histories without notice.

Technology

Facebook's history with privacy: Promises and only promises

Facebook's most notable missteps and promises around privacy.

31 March 2018 9:49 AM IST

Newsmakers

What is Facebook doing to protect election security? They answer

Leaders from Facebook spoke with members of the press to review their ongoing election efforts.

31 March 2018 9:30 AM IST

Few online reports also suggest that LG Display planned on supplying its flexible OLED panels to Apple for the iPhones. However the amount of supplies wasnt anywhere close to Samsung Display.

Technology

Apple unveils new privacy tools ahead of EU law

Tech companies have long been scrutinised for how they protect their customers' data and Facebook is currently embroiled...

30 March 2018 11:18 AM IST

Denham launched her investigation after weekend reports that Cambridge Analytica improperly used information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. Facebook has suspended the company from the social network. (Representational Image)

Technology

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower's evidence made public by British...

Wylie alleges that the data was used to help to build profiles of American voters and build support for Trump in the US...

29 March 2018 7:29 PM IST

Technology

Facebook redesigns its privacy tools

The company promises to take additional steps in the coming weeks to put people more in control of their privacy.

29 March 2018 4:31 PM IST

Discourse

Free products sell your privacy

We need digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest-bidding authoritarian or...

28 March 2018 1:37 AM IST

Newsmakers

Will Mark Zuckerberg be able to boldly fix Facebook crisis?

The Federal Trade Commission announced it was investigating Facebook for its privacy practices.

27 March 2018 10:03 AM IST

$You can get a good password by combining two or more words, such as \rocketcalendar.\ Sprinkle in some numerals and punctuation marks, and make some of those letters in caps, and youve got a strong password.$ Technology

Twitter forces password reset: How to pick a new password

The company is recommending a change as a precaution.

5 May 2018 9:30 AM IST