Tag: Facebook
Meta Fined €1.2bn for Mishandling Data Transfer: Largest GDPR Fine Ever
Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people’s data when transferring it between Europe and the United States.
Issued by Ireland’s Data Protection...
Meta announces paid verification service for Facebook and Instagram users
Instagram and Facebook users will now be able to pay for a blue tick verification, parent company Meta has announced.
Meta Verified will cost $11.99...
Facebook shut in Burkina Faso over security concerns
The authorities in Burkina Faso have said they disrupted access to Facebook due to security fears.
Government spokesperson Alkassoum Maiga said the authorities did not...
No, there isn’t proof that the private data of 1.5 billion...
In her opening remarks at a Senate subcommittee hearing with a Facebook whistle-blower on Tuesday, Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee made a stunning allegation.
“News...
Global outage! Six alternatives to WhatsApp
As you are probably already painfully aware, WhatsApp has been down worldwide on Monday, leaving millions of users incommunicado and looking for alternative solutions to...
FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM AND WHATSAPP ALL GO DOWN IN MAJOR OUTAGE
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage.
The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on...
Half a billion Facebook users’ information posted on hacking website, cyber...
The personal information of about half a billion Facebook users, including their phone numbers, have been posted to a website used by hackers, cybersecurity...
