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25 mars 2018

The Best Alternative For Every Facebook Feature | WIRED

If you're ready to quit Facebook, here's how to replace everything you might miss.

Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th | TechCrunch

Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook's Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal -- …

Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded to what became a huge data scandal

An email exchange between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica showed how the company responded to early reports that the data firm was misusing social media.

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets | Technology | The Guardian

The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will - Issue 52: The Hive - Nautilus

It’s not that James Williams, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Digital Ethics Lab (motto: “Every Bit…

Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

On Twitter, in a thread that went viral, François Chollet, an A.I. software engineer at Google DeepMind, argued, “Facebook is,…

Facebook, Google oppose data privacy measure in California | The Sacramento Bee

The California Consumer Privacy Act, a possible California ballot measure in November, would require big companies such as Facebook, Google and AT&T to be more transparent in how they use data gathered on consumers.

Facebook can see what users type even if status is not posted - latimes

Facebook has said that it is within its terms of service to see what users are typing even when the status or comment is never posted on the social network. The Menlo Park, Calif., company confirmed...

Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011 | TechCrunch

Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the company had made mistakes; said it had breache…

How Facebook handles account deletions - Page Flows - user flow patterns for product people

After all the recent Facebook news, I figured it would be a good time to check out their account deletion flow.

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones | Ars Technica

Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.