Facebook into second day of global outage
Users consider going outside for the first time in years
Facebook is having difficulty restoring its services entirely after a 17 hour partial outage made the world’s largest social network inaccessible to users across the globe.
Zuckerberg wants Facebook to become privacy focused
Although how it can afford it is anyone’s guess
Mark Zuckerberg now says he wants Facebook to become a "privacy-focused" social network which is a move away from its previous method of encouraging sharing and flogging all data.
Facebook threatening Europe and Canada
We will withdraw investment if you don’t do what you are told.
Facebook threatened to pull investment projects from Europe and Canada if lobbying demands from COO Sheryl Sandberg were not met.
Facebook sucks up EU investigation time
Social networking is privacy watchdog’s main concern
An office that’s responsible for enforcing European data privacy laws against many of the biggest US tech firms is spending much of its time on one company: Facebook.
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.