UK should regulate Facebook
It keeps breaking the rules
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.
Facebook gets lasers
Who needs clouds when you can zap things in space
Facebook is about to get a laser communication system which can chat to satellites in space and put pictures of cats into orbit.
Facebook slashes more Russian accounts
Some linked to state-owned news agency Sputnik
Facebook has removed hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts, which it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platforms.
Intel teams up with Facebook for AI
I am sorry Dave I am erasing your nipples
Intel is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year.
Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica fiasco
Washington DC attorney-general washes his briefs
The attorney general for Washington, DC, filed a civil lawsuit against Facebook claiming the social notworking outfit failed to protect its users' data and pointing specifically to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook will keep tracking you even when you tell it not to
Uses your IP address
Even if you explicitly tell Facebook to not track your location, it will still use your IP address to track your location.
Facebook gave data to Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada
Considered them exempt from privacy rules
Facebook documents, found by the New York Times, show that the social network considered Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada business partners and effectively exempted them from its privacy rules.
Facebook abandons its secretive research lab
Building 8 closed and its work is distributed
Facebook has disbanded its secretive research lab, where the company developed new hardware like its Portal speakers and researched moonshot projects like brain computer interfaces.
UK publishes more of Facebook’s secrets
It doesn’t like it up them
A British MP has used privilege laws to publish more than 250 pages of Facebook’s secret internal documents and they cast the social networking site in a poor light.
Russians were pulling Facebook data
UK Commons committee has discovered
A UK Commons committee chair said that a seized trove of Facebook documents reveals that a company engineer flagged Russian "entities" using a Pinterest API to pull billions of points of Facebook data every day in 2014.