Amid the controversies over data collection, data privacy, and consumer control over how their information is used, Facebook on Wednesday (Nov. 13) released stats via its Facebook Transparency Report that showed an increase in government demands for data tied to the social media firm’s users....
Facebook has announced the launch of Facebook Pay, a payment system meant to operate through Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. “People already use payments across our apps to shop, donate to causes and send money to each other,” the company said. “Facebook Pay will make...
WhatsApp business is introducing a new feature to help small businesses interact with customers, according to VentureBeat. The feature is called catalog, and it will help users share a picture, price, description and link to an item. Users can then purchase the item or browse...
The head of Facebook’s Libra project said he doesn’t consider bitcoin to be a currency because it’s simply too volatile. “I don’t think of bitcoin as a currency. It’s actually not a great medium of exchange because of its volatility,” David Marcus said while speaking...
California’s attorney general said that Facebook has continued “to drag its feet” when it comes to handing over documents pertaining to the state’s investigation into the social media giant and Cambridge Analytica. On Wednesday (Nov. 6), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a court...
Facebook said it is going to enhance encryption capabilities on its Messenger communication platform, despite requests from lawmakers and regulators not to do so because of the potential result that pedophiles and criminals will be harder to track. Facebook also said it is going to...
Facebook has revealed that it unknowingly gave outside developers access to some private user information. The social media giant explained that since April 2018, it has removed or restricted a number of its developer application programming interfaces (APIs), including the Groups API, so that an...
EU antitrust regulators are now investigating whether Facebook’s Marketplace is unfair regarding online classified ads, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook Marketplace has a huge user base — almost one in every three Facebook users have used it. The platform exists so people can...
Facebook is filing a lawsuit against NSO Group, an Israeli cybersecurity company, alleging that it hacked WhatsApp users, according to CNBC. Facebook filed the complaint on Tuesday (Oct. 29). It alleged the group used malware on about 1,400 cellphones, targeting human rights activists, journalists, diplomats,...
