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Appeals Court Rejects Facebook’s Attempt to Halt Facial Recognition Class Action Lawsuit
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their ...
Judge Rules Facebook Must Proceed With Privacy Breach Lawsuit
Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users' personal data and allowing a U.K. political consulting firm to mine the ...
Facebook ‘Unintentionally Uploaded’ Email Contacts of Up to 1.5M Users
Facebook Inc. said it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media ...
Massive Amounts of Facebook User Data Found Posted on Amazon Cloud Servers
Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn't. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly ...
What Facebook’s Data Deals Can Teach Carriers
While the fact Facebook sold data without its users' knowledge or consent is old news, new reports that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals the social media ...
Facebook Beats Back Disclosure Demands in D.C. Privacy Lawsuit
Facebook Inc. doesn't need to respond to District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine's demands for data about the social media giant's user privacy-protection policies while awaiting a ...
Word of Mouth Matters When Customers Buy Their Insurance: Facebook
For young and old property and auto insurance customers alike, word of mouth shapes their coverage purchases, according to a new Facebook survey. Where that word of mouth comes from can differ, ...
Facebook Cyber Breach Affects 50M Users
Facebook Inc has discovered a security issue affecting about 50 million user accounts, the company said on Friday. Facebook said attackers stole Facebook access tokens through its "view as" feature, ...