Facebook facing $3 billion fine from FTC over privacy violations
Facebook said on Wednesday that it expected to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations. The penalty would be a record by the agency against a technology company and a sign More...
Facebook, How an App Was Almost Its Downfall, and Moving Forward
Facebook is a popular social media website. There are literally over one billion Facebook users. With so many users sharing so much information on a daily basis, privacy has always been a concern. photo/Gerd Altmann If More...
President Obama blames rejection of Democrats on Fox News in bars, talks silencing media opponents
The liberal Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner asked President Obama about Donald Trump’s victory, prompting the President to blame part of it on “Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the More...
Senate will investigate Facebook filtering out conservative stories
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is facing a US Senate inquiry over claims that the social network has been filtering conservative news and/or manipulating the trending topics to suppress news from the “Right More...
Facebook petitioned to add polyamorous for relationship status
Users have created a petition to persuade Facebook to add “polyamorous” to the list of relationship designations. Facebook already includes the obvious relationship designations such as “single,” “engaged,” More...
Facebook censored ‘I Am a Christian’ ad because it ‘directly addresses’ users on religion
Facebook has censored a fundraising post for the new Christian movie project, I Am a Christian, based on the life of Meriam Ibrahim, because the social media company now claims there are rejecting that ads which More...
Mark Zuckerberg targets Obama administration, NSA over Internet monitoring
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg had some harsh words for President Obama and the NSA surveillance program on Thursday. New reports confirmed that NSA agents masquerade as Facebook to carry out attacks on targets More...
Facebook tracks all written messages, posted or not, monitors ‘self-censoring’
Facebook records everything users type on the social networking site, including notes they choose to delete instead of posting, according to a new study that tracked the habits of nearly four million people. Adam More...
Poll shows Americans are concerned about privacy issues
A recently released poll by The Associated Press and the National Constitution Center indicates that Americans are concerned about privacy infringement. In fact, less than half (47%) give the government good marks More...
