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Facebook on Thursday said it was ready for a data privacy law that will go into effect in its home state of California at the start of next year.
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is funding research aimed at changing the way information circulates on social media — with the goal of combating online violence, hate and disinformation.
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An Iranian minster said Wednesday the Islamic republic had recently thwarted a “highly organiz ed cyber attack” targeting its e-government infrastructure.
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Facebook said Tuesday it plans to move ahead with strong encryption for all its messaging applications, claiming that allowing law enforcement special access would end up being “a gift to criminals, hackers and repressive regimes.”
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Authorities in Pensacola, Florida said Monday the city had been hit by a cyberattack, just days after a Saudi officer killed three American sailors at the city’s naval base.
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US regulators concluded Friday that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica — at the center of a massive scandal on hijacking of Facebook data — deceived users of the social network about how it collected and handled their personal information.
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A Lamborghini-driving Moscow hacker who called his operation Evil Corp and has ties to the FSB Russian intelligence service was indicted by US authorities Thursday for the cybertheft of tens of millions of dollars.
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A university student in California has filed a class-action lawsuit against video app TikTok, which she accuses of harvesting large amounts of user data and storing it in China.
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The EU will relaunch its deadlocked effort to more closely regulate internet phone and message services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Messenger, a top bloc official said on Tuesday.
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The European Commission said Monday it had begun a “preliminary investigation” into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it.
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Continue reading EU to Check How Facebook, Google Use Data: Spokeswoman