Meta has begun its rollout of automatic encryption of all Facebook and Messenger chats, the company has announced. Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE), which has been an option since 2016, can be read only by the sender and recipient. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what […]
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook minors and knew – but never disclosed – it had received millions of complaints about under-age users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to reports. The complaint emerged in a newly unsealed legal document, described in reports by The […]
The Australian government has warned the online dating industry that they must strengthen policies to improve safety standards or be forced to do so through legislation. The warning to dating apps comes in the wake of research by the Australian Institute of Criminology that found three out of four users of dating apps or websites […]
The European Union signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of personal information that is pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease European concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework has an adequate level of protection for personal data, the EU’s executive commission said. This means that […]
Facebook lost a legal challenge on Tuesday at the European Union’s top court over a groundbreaking German antitrust decision that limited the way the company uses data for advertising. The European Court of Justice said competition watchdogs can consider whether companies such as Facebook comply with the continent’s strict privacy rules, which are normally enforced […]
European Union regulators have ordered technology giant Google to sell off some of its lucrative digital advertising business in order to address competition concerns. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch and top competition enforcer, said its preliminary view after an investigation is that “only the mandatory divestment by Google of part of its services” […]
Meta has promised to not use the data from adverts placed by other businesses on the Facebook platform in order to compete against them after the competition watchdog flagged concerns. Meta told the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) it would remedy a situation which would allow it to develop and improve its own products […]
Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices that were created to help people find lost keys, keep tabs on luggage or to locate other things that have a tendency to be misplaced or lost. The companies behind the iPhone and the software that powers Android phones on Tuesday submitted […]
Outsourcing firm and government contractor Capita said customer, supplier or colleague data may have been accessed by hackers in a recent cyber attack on the firm. The group – a major contractor for local authorities – said investigations since the hack was discovered on March 31 have shown evidence of a “limited” data breach. It […]
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report. As children become more active online, they are growing in vulnerability to grooming and abuse by strangers […]
