Facebook now lets you bulk remove third-party apps, and any and all posts those apps may have published on your behalf, a welcome privacy change that should make it easier to strip access to your profile from services you no longer use. The change, precipitated by the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, is part of […]
Instant messaging app Telegram is down for users across Europe, the Middle east and Russia. The encrypted messaging service wrote on Twitter that it’s looking into the issue and hopes to resolve it soon.Down Detector is reporting a spike in reported problems with hundreds of users complaining that the app is not working. Users were greeted […]
Mark Zuckerberg is sorry about that whole Cambridge Analytica mess. So sorry, in fact, that he took out full-page ads in newspapers around the globe on Sunday to “promise to do better for you.” According to CNN, the ads appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Sunday Mirror, The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, […]
The Chinese company, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, won’t be able to sell its smartphones, smartwatches and laptops at Best Buy. It’s already shut out by the US carriers. It’s going to get harder for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to sell its smartphones in the US. Best Buy, the nation’s largest electronics retailer, has ceased ordering new smartphones from […]
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app that’s prized by those seeking privacy, lost a bid before Russia’s Supreme Court to block security services from getting access to users’ data, giving President Vladimir Putin a victory in his effort to keep tabs on electronic communications. Supreme Court Judge Alla Nazarova on Tuesday rejected Telegram’s appeal against the Federal Security […]
After reports of Cambridge Analytica using Facebook’s user information came to light, people across social media have begun to urge others to either #DeleteFacebook or #BoycottFacebook in response. One surprising voice has joined this movement – WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton. Mr Acton left the company in 2017, three years after Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19bn (£11.4bn at the then […]
Facebook Inc. is drawing scrutiny from the main U.S. privacy watchdog and half a dozen congressional committees over how the personal data of 50 million users was obtained by a data analytics firm that helped elect President Donald Trump. Facebook said it would conduct staff-level briefings of six committees Tuesday and Wednesday. That includes meetings with the House […]
Smart Reply, the clever A.I.-powered technology that automatically creates responses to your inbound messages, first debuted in Google’s email client Inbox over two years ago,before later rolling out to Gmail, Android Messages on Project Fi, and Allo. Now, a team inside Google’s internal incubator Area 120 is working to bring the Smart Reply feature to other chat applications. The newly announced project […]