BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police said on Saturday that it has closed 1,100 social media accounts, along with 31 websites, this year for unlawful activities such as trolling or blackmailing, the official Xinhua news agency Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top cyber authority has scrubbed 9,800 social media accounts of independent news providers deemed to have posted sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content on the Internet, it said late on Monday. Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of Read more…
(Reuters) – At least two US states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc’s Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds Read more…
(Reuters) – Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing on Monday that private profile data of at least 500,000 users may Read more…
(Reuters) – Facebook said on Friday that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in its worst security breach ever given the unprecedented level of potential access, Read more…
The founders of Instagram are following the founder of WhatsApp in exiting Facebook which, in my opinion, is some of the best news Facebook has had in this torrid year. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook, Google and other tech firms have agreed to a code of conduct to do more to tackle the spread of fake news, due to concerns it can influence elections, the European Read more…
(Reuters) – The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security before they allow men to start messaging conversations, with a view Read more…
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday proposed hefty fines on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content within one hour. Brussels gave internet firms Read more…
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