HANOI (Reuters) – Police in Vietnam have issued an arrest warrant for an activist accused of trying to overthrow the state by posting pro-democracy materials on Facebook. Nguyen Van Trang, a member of the banned Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has filed a defamation suit against a financial adviser and blogger who shared an article on his Facebook page, Lee’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The defendant, Read more…
(Reuters) – Britain said it would tax the revenue that online platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon make in the country to update a system that had not kept pace with changing digital business Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday said customer data was being “weaponized with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit and called for a federal privacy law in the United States. Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government on Monday told US technology firm Facebook to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens of millions of people globally. The government asked the world’s Read more…
(Reuters) – Facebook has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Read more…
(Reuters) – Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its Read more…
Facebook has launched its first piece of hardware – Portal, a smart speaker which aims to drive engagement with Facebook’s Messenger platform. But its lack of interoperability with WhatsApp will hinder the appeal of the Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook on Monday released a smart speaker designed to ease video calls, but the company’s history of privacy mishaps and the device’s price and limited functionality could slow it from taking Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook said on Tuesday that investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use the social networking site’s single sign-on in a massive cyber attack that the company Read more…
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