After years and years of misappropriating user data, it appears as if Facebook will finally be providing users with the ability to control what information the company shares with other sites. As part of an initiative first announced at a developer conference last year, Facebook has announced the launch of its “Off-Facebook Activity” tool, which for the first time provides …

You may scoff, but I am just one of many believers who have organised ourselves into a legion of horny troopers for truth. We’ve also had one of the best possible weapons we could ask for at our beck and call: Organisation! Thanks to Facebook, my fellow acolytes and I have been able to set up a page that would detail just how, when and where we’d meet up in the sandy wasteland of the Nevada desert for our grand plan to invade Area 51. Or our organisation was on point, until Mark Zuckerberg and the jerks running the social media show decided to kill the hunt for answers

Some US politician want to regulate the UI design of the internet to prevent addictive design patterns

What’s in a name? Well if you ask companies like Google and McDonalds, they’ll probably tell you quite a lot. And now two of the internet’s most widely used sites and apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, are getting new names. Both massive social media and communication apps are owned and developed by Facebook, a fact that not everyone realises, which his …

Most of us are uncomfortable knowing that various tech companies are storing large amounts of our personal data, but how would you feel if they were easily able to share it with one another as well?

Facebook has been hit with the largest fine ever instituted against a tech company for privacy or anti-trust breaches. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a $5 billion settlement with Facebook following a year-long investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other privacy breaches. In the agreement, as revealed by The Verge, the FTC alleges that Facebook violated the …

It doesn’t take long for scammers to smell an opportunity and take advantage of it. Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, Libra, isn’t even functioning yet and it turns out there are already a host of people setting up accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram claiming to be the official hubs of Libra, as discovered by The Washington Post.  This perhaps …

Unfortunately, this world is a horrible place where you simply can’t’ trust everyone n the internet. To ensure kids don’t fall victim to these undesirables who prowl on kids, Facebook has instituted measures that ensure kids are only allowed to chat with individuals approved by their parents, through its Messenger Kids app. A reasonable safeguard given the prevalence of sick …