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South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users

YoopyaNovember 5, 2024November 5, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 5, 2024November 5, 20240392

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information...

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Facebook owner Meta restarts facial recognition tech in ‘celeb-bait’ crackdown

YoopyaOctober 22, 2024October 22, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 22, 2024October 22, 20240417

SYDNEY/NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Three years after Meta (META.O) shut down facial recognition software on Facebook amid a groundswell of privacy and regulator pushback,...

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Meta, challenging OpenAI, announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2024October 6, 20240437

NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta (META.O) announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create...

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Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses raise concerns about privacy and user data

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2024September 28, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2024September 28, 20240415

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are just one of many wearable tech devices on the market. The glasses, which first launched in 2021, are a collaboration between Meta and...

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Meta bans RT and other Russian state media networks

YoopyaSeptember 17, 2024September 17, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 17, 2024September 17, 20240501

NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta (META.O) said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from...

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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to censor COVID-19 content

YoopyaAugust 27, 2024August 27, 2024

by YoopyaAugust 27, 2024August 27, 20240545

Aug 27 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said senior officials in the Biden administration had pressured his social media company to censor COVID-19...

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Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law to prevent cornering of digital markets

YoopyaMarch 25, 2024March 25, 2024

by YoopyaMarch 25, 2024March 25, 20240414

LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday, the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to...

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TikTok, Meta, X CEOs to testify at US Senate hearing in January

YoopyaNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 30, 2023November 30, 20230411

The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify on online child sexual exploitation at a Jan. 31 U.S. Senate...

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Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say

YoopyaNovember 27, 2023November 27, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 27, 2023November 27, 20230416

Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints...

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WhatsApp is working on implementing a new layer of security with Passkey

YoopyaAugust 13, 2023August 13, 2023

by YoopyaAugust 13, 2023August 13, 20230398

If you are a WhatsApp user, there are several ways to protect your account. For example, using traditional passwords and two-factor authentication. And with WhatsApp...