The company responsible for Facebook and Instagram, Meta, may close both social networks in the European Union (EU). At stake is a new EU law that requires data from European citizens to be processed on servers within the territory, and these data are currently processed
Facebook paid $4.9 billion to the FTC to protect Mark Zuckerberg from being sued individually by the US agency in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, says a group of shareholders in one process that was made public this Tuesday and that was reported by Politico. These
In the last few months we have seen a series of ‘attacks’ between the CEOs of Facebook and Apple – Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, respectively – regarding user privacy and data protection. At the heart of the controversy is the iOS 14.5 update that
Although Apple belongs to the group of giant companies, something is missing when it comes to security. It is possible for hackers to be able to access AirDrop data and steal users’ phone numbers and email addresses. This issue has been known since 2019 and
England’s former commissioner for child protection, Anne Longfield, is legally accusing TikTok of having “excessive” practices in collecting personal data from children. TikTok is “data collection service disguised as a social network” (Image: Neil Patel) “TikTok is a hugely popular social media platform that has
After several strategies adopted in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and a consultation with the market, the community executive will, on Wednesday next week, present a proposal for regulation to safeguard the fundamental values and rights of the EU and the user safety, aiming
The Sun has advanced with the news that the personal data of Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is included in the ‘lot’ released this weekend that contains personal data of more than 500 million users of the social network. Some of the Zuckerberg data
Facebook once again had its security compromised by a leak. Hackers exposed more than 533 million personal data from users of the social network. The victims are from 106 countries in the world. The data includes cell phones, full name, date of birth, biographies, usernames
A new malware for Android that is in circulation pretends to be an important resource for the system, but in fact it can steal all your data and still remotely control the device. The threat was identified by the digital security company Zimperium, which studied
William R. Evanina, an American national security official serving as Director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center appeared on the CBS show 60 minutes and claimed that China stole personal data of 80% of American adults, according to their research, they did