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Facebook once built an internal app that let employees identify people using facial recognition and their phone cameras, Business Insider reported Friday. From the report: The app, which was developed between 2015 and 2016, utilised Facebook's vast collection of user identities to automatically reco...
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Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Facebook still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white.
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
In mijn nieuwsbrief: kwalijke technologiejournalistiek, Kamervragen over mijn onthulling, een nieuw boek over Uber en narcisten in de politiek.
If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name.
Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions:What exactly has Facebook changed?How many Facebook...
Our face recognition setting provides an easy on or off switch.
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
Facebook’s independent oversight board will have a final charter by August. It’s messy, but so is every constitutional convention
Tim Wu rebuts Zuck's reasons for exempting Facebook from antitrust enforcement
Topadviseur Nick Clegg reageert op schandalen en zorgen rondom het techbedrijf. "We kunnen ons boos maken over technologie of we kunnen een oplossing vinden."
Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times
John de Mol eist dat Facebook reclame met zijn portret voorgoed blokkeert. Over een gelijksoortige eis kwam een belangrijke uitspraak uit Straatsburg.
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
The social media giant is planning to set up a crypto-currency in around 12 countries by early 2020.
Facebook’s former chief security officer said Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg should be replaced as the company’s CEO, arguing that he has too much control over the social media giant.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition. According to Consumer Reports, despite Facebook rolling out a new privacy setting last year allowing use...
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
Former British MEP is sent stern letter accusing Facebook of ignoring how EU law works
Pulling apart the social network could keep the EU busy in court for a decade, says Margrethe Vestager.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No.
Overal ter wereld maken overheden ad hoc regels om de verspreiding van haat en desinformatie tegen te gaan. Die wetgeving zal niet slagen zolang bedrijven als Facebook en YouTube hun luiken gesloten houden en hun verantwoordelijkheid kunnen blijven afschuiven.
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
Wie Facebook zegt, zegt: schandalen. Je zou verwachten dat de aandeelhouders van Facebook het bedrijf afstraffen voor alle misleiding, privacyschending en ander wangedrag. Maar doen ze dat ook? Om daar achter te komen, onderzochten we de invloed van de schandalen op de aandelenkoers van Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touts "reducing permanence" as a principle for his company's privacy-focused future, but it's hard to make things disappear from the internet.
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who’ve died
New Zealand’s top privacy official on Monday called Facebook “morally bankrupt,” remarks that come in the wake of last month's mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques that were livestreamed on the social media platform,
Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant for “authentication” to its own ends. Incredibly, this time, the company managed to accomplish all three in one fell swoop.What happened?Last weekend, news broke...
Site says recently live streams are prioritised for review only when flagged for suicide
There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook would be ‘pivoting to privacy’. That’s an empty pledge
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on importan
Facebook’s promise to build a “privacy-focused platform” is little more than a hollow reaction to recent PR disasters.
Wie niet luisteren wil, moet maar voelen
This year I'm hosting a series of discussions on the future of technology and society. Here's the first one with Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain.
I joined his seminar and we covered topics...
I joined his seminar and we covered topics...
News site says it wants to ensure its efforts are a ‘net positive’ for community, as some journalists doubt program’s effectiveness
Fifteen years ago, the social network site was set up to connect people. But now, with lives increasingly played out online, have we forgotten how to be alone?
All of Facebook's internal employee apps aren't working because of Apple. Employees aren't happy about it.
Facebook cancels its all-spying, secret "research" program, Apple cancels Facebook's developer account
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…
Mark Zuckerberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (paywalled, but summarized here) relies on all-too-familiar refrains to explain the dubious principles and so-called “facts” behind Facebook’s business model. It’s the same old song we’ve heard before. And, as usual, it wildly misses users’...
Staff discussed what to do with high-spending children before deciding to refuse refunds