Meta has said it will appeal against two fines from the Irish DPC which total €390 million. It was fined because of GDPR violations which were raised by two complainants in May 2018.
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Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit concerning the data harvesting Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018. However, it has not admitted to any wrongdoing.
Twitter has announced that it will no longer allow users to tweet usernames related to or links to rival platforms. Its prohibited list includes Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and even linktr.ee.
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Legendary game developer John Carmack (Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake) has resigned from his role of "Consulting CTO" at Meta. The former executive was leading the Oculus VR team at the company.
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Instagram is testing various features that aim to bring friends closer together. One of these is Candid Stories, which seems to be the platform's challenger to popular social media app BeReal.
Meta has developed a free open-source software tool that will help platforms identify copies of images or videos and take action against them en masse. The tool is named as Hasher-Matcher-Actioner.
NordVPN's study shows millions of people globally were hit by data theft in the past four years. Data stolen and then sold on bot markets included user logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, and more.
WhatsApp now has avatars that can serve as your profile picture. Your avatar can also be used in 36 expressive stickers that you can send to friends and family. The update rolls out today.
A group of Meta employees who were part of a corporate training program have claimed that they are receiving less favorable severance packages than other workers who were recently laid off.
Meta is implementing age verification tools on its Facebook Dating service to ensure that only people 18 years old and above can use the service. Users can choose from two age verification options.
An Android threat campaign using fraudulent educational apps was recently found. It can capture various Facebook information such as profile name, email address, password, and phone number.
While speaking at a summit, Mark Zuckerberg reinstated that Meta is still not happy with Apple's App Store policies, adding that Apple primarily decides what apps get on a device due to their control.
Facebook's parent company Meta has been hit by a fine of €265 million from the Data Protection Commission (Ireland) for violating people's privacy. There are still 13 outstanding inquiries pending.
Meta announced a network timing protocol for its data centers powering its technologies, Precision Time Protocol. The company claims that PTP protocol can sync time down to nanoseconds.
Meta is introducing new updates on Facebook and Instagram to protect teenagers from online harm. For instance, accounts by teens will have more private settings than the usual social media account.
Facebook is removing the political and religious views fields among others from the "About me" page. The change is being done to make the social media platform easier to use and more streamlined.
Over the past year, Meta has continued its crackdown on employees involved in activities that go against company policies such as retrieving inaccessible accounts for users in exchange for money.
E-commerce giant Amazon is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology jobs as soon as this week. The job cuts will affect people in Amazon's devices org, including Alexa.
Meta has announced that it will be laying off more than 11,000 of its employees. The mass layoffs are part of the company's transition to become a leaner and more efficient company.
Mark Zuckerberg has told executives in a meeting on Tuesday that layoffs will begin on Wednesday morning. Thousands of jobs are expected to go. Four months of salary will be paid as severance.
According to a recent report, Meta will announce layoffs this week. The move will impact thousands of employees and will be the biggest headcount reduction among big tech companies this year.
A weird bug was locking out users from their accounts and serving them with suspension notices even if no community guidelines were violated. Instagram has since worked on the issue and fixed it.
Instagram users are reporting that they are unable to log in, losing account access, receiving suspension notices and content getting deleted. Instagram has tweeted that it is looking into the matter.
Meta has fallen out of the top 20 U.S. companies after its stock price crashed by 23%. It comes as investors cast doubts on Meta's metaverse investments while the company reports lower earnings.
Popular messaging service WhatsApp has been down for the past hour for many users worldwide. Meta, WhatsApp's parent company, has since acknowledged the problem and is now working on a fix.
Altimeter Capital, a long time investor of Meta, has suggested that the social media firm cut a fifth of its workforce and limit spending on the metaverse to increase its free cash flow.
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Instagram is testing a new feature that allows users to schedule their posts and reels within the app. The feature was first discovered in July but was regarded by Meta as an early prototype.
TikTok has become the second most popular video app in the U.S. among under 35s. Research from Omdia said TikTok saw a large growth in the time people spent on the app and could overtake Facebook.
Rosfinmonitoring, Russia's financial monitoring agency, has added Meta to its list of "terrorists or extremists", as reported by Russian news agencies today. This tag does not include WhatsApp so far.
Meta has warned one million Facebook users who may have had their accounts compromised through a fraudulent iOS or Android app. The apps required users to sign in in order for the app to "work."
Meta has admitted that it will start laying off some of its employees, and will stop hiring for the upcoming year. It will also impose stricter financial restrictions to brace for a tougher year.
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A third-party Instagram client has been removed from the App Store after raking in thousands of downloads in a few days. It offered an ad-free, customizable experience that Meta did not appreciate.
Meta has announced new updates that will make it easier for people to manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts and profiles. This means account switching, among others, is getting easier.
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Meta has been sued by two Facebook users who claim that the company can track all their activity and collect their data through an embedded web browser inside the Facebook app without their consent.
Meta and Google have so far avoided reducing their workforce. Instead of announcing layoffs, these tech giants are restructuring their departments and asking employees to join active projects.
Meta has announced that it is testing a Community Chats feature for Facebook which will allow users to create communities or audio channels to call or text with members of their Facebook groups.
Meta has highlighted a recent technical implementation in Facebook that is designed to deter unauthorized data scrapers from guessing and repeatedly accessing URLs to access user data.
Meta has disbanded the Responsible Innovation team that was tasked with finding potential problems with Facebook and Instagram. The members will have work opportunities, but no guaranteed jobs.
Meta has announced the official date for the annual company event called Meta Connect. The one-day event will be on October 11 where the company plans to disclose new products and upcoming features.
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