Facebook has announced a series of changes to its developer platform to implement tighter user privacy controls and limit how apps can access to user data. The changes were initially mentioned last week, when the social platform came under fire after reports emerged that millions of Facebook users’ personal data was harvested by British firm ..
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Your likes (or general actions) on FB are continuously being applied to the company’s machine-learning model. reader comments 98 Share this story Cambridge Analytica & Facebook View more stories In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and rising public pressure against Facebook, the social media giant announced on Wednesday evening that it will restrict ..
Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings Amid Data Breach Outcry Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new privacy settings aiming to give its users more control over how their data is shared, following an outcry over hijacking of personal information at the giant social network. The updates include easier access to Facebook’s user settings and tools to easily search ..
Mozilla today unveiled the “Facebook Container Extension”, a new browser extension designed to help Firefox users reduce the ability of Facebook to track their activity across other web sites. The new extension, Mozilla says, will help users gain more control over their data on the social platform by isolating their identity into a separate container. ..
Instantly recognizable with his pink hair and nose ring, Christopher Wylie claims to have helped create data analysis company Cambridge Analytica before turning whistleblower and becoming “the face” of the crisis engulfing Facebook. Carole Cadwalladr, the Guardian journalist who worked with Wylie for a year on the story, described him as “clever, funny, bitchy, profound, ..
A US consumer protection agency said Monday it has opened an investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices, another blow to the social network, which is struggling to deal with a growing crisis on misuse of private data. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed news reports from last week that it had opened an inquiry over the ..
Ho sfogliato velocemente il testo dello Schema di Decreto Legislativo che introduce disposizioni per l’adeguamento della normativa nazionale alle disposizioni del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679 (in seguito GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation) in attuazione dell’art. 13 della Legge di delegazione europea 2016-2017 (legge 25 ottobre 2017, n. 163) annunciato da Governo con un Comunicato Stampa del ..
Raffaele Barberio, presidente dell’associazione Privacy Italia, è stato ospite di Sky Tg24 Pomeriggio per analizzare criticamente il caso Facebook-CambridgeAnalytica. “Con l’uso illegittimo dei nostri dati viene perpetrata una violazione della privacy degli utenti e questo non può più andare avanti”, ha detto Barberio. La sintesi della trasmissione [embedded content] Raffaele Barberio a SkyTg24 su Facebook-CambridgeAnalytica: ‘Stop ..
A snowballing Facebook scandal over the hijacking of personal data from millions of its users has many wondering whether it’s time to restrict access to their Facebook information or even leave the social network altogether, with the #deletefacebook movement gaining traction. Here are some options open to the worried Facebook user. Put it to sleep ..
Il Regolamento europeo sulla protezione dei dati (GDPR) entrerà pienamente in vigore dal 25 maggio. Per questo motivo è di stretta attualità e di rilevante interesse professionale il seminario formativo “Il nuovo Regolamento UE in materia di protezione dei dati personali. Il Garante incontra l’Amministrazione economico finanziaria” organizzato da Sogei, presso la sua sede di Roma, il ..
