If someone built a tool that made Facebook less addictive—a tool that allowed users to benefit from Facebook’s positive features while limiting their exposure to its negative ones—how would Facebook respond? I know the answer, because I built the tool, … Read more
There is a current class action lawsuit against Meta in which court documents include claims that the company had breached the Wiretap Act. The analysis made in this post is based on content court documents and reverse engineering sections of … Read more
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post Adam Mosseri mosseri.bsky.social did:plc:5gjs7tbxytauadlsgalr57ex Looks like it a few domains, including thehandbasket.co, were mistakenly classified as … Read more
Meta: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram A leading Big Tech giant, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram is known for their questionable data privacy policies. As people would like to protect their privacy on these platforms, rumors have spread … Read more
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News Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law by Rumneek Johal, Reporter September 18, 2023 Canadian Sikh Facebook users posting about the assassination of a Sikh community … Read more
It’s been 10 years since Google acquired Waze, and I thought it would be the right time to tell the story and some of what I learned. In June 2013, Waze was acquired by Google for $1.15B. In those days, … Read more
Facebook is claiming our video show and tell where people share art, electronics, modified wheelchairs, and other projects, is hate speech now. There was no option to have it reviewed only to “agree” so no one sees it. Will update … Read more
Meta is once again in the hot seat. This time, the Federal Trade Commission is accusing the social media giant of failing to comply with its $5 billion data privacy settlement with the agency in 2020. The social media giant … Read more
reader comments 111 with Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. On top of “continuing to give app developers access to users’ private information” that Meta claimed … Read more