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	facebook As-it-happens update ⋅ December 20, 2017
	NEWS
	Facebook Uses Facial Recognition To Help You Manage Your Identity Forbes I tend to lean toward the "awesome" camp if I have to pick sides—both from the perspective that it's awesome we have technology capable of doing that, and from the perspective of the many valid uses for that technology. A new feature introduced by Facebook this week qualifies as a useful application ... Facebook expanding use of facial recognition technology - Times Herald-Record Facebook to Notify Users When Photos of Them Are Uploaded - Voice of America How to turn off Facebook's creepy new facial recognition feature - BGR Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook continues to clean up News Feed Business Insider Facebook announced it will begin demoting "engagement bait," or posts that explicitly ask users to like, comment on, or share, in the News Feed. Posts that ask users to share for a chance to win a prize, or ones that tell users to "like" if they're a certain astrological sign, are considered engagement bait, ... Next Up for Demotion in Facebook's News Feed: Engagement Bait - Adweek Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant
	Autsch! Germany slaps Facebook in its abusive little face for 'limitlessly amassing data' The Register Germany's competition authority has accused Facebook of abusing its market dominance to "limitlessly amass every kind of data" on people. The Bundeskartellamt informed the American social media giant on Tuesday of its "preliminary legal assessment" that by forcing third-party websites and apps ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook opens its social VR Spaces platform to HTC Vive TechCrunch Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive headset. The move opens up the platform to a wider audience inside what is still a very tight niche of users. Users on both the Oculus and HTC headsets will be able to meet ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook Battles Users Over Tracking At Health Sites MediaPost Communications The battle dates to last year, when three web users proceeding under the pseudonyms "Winston Smith," "Jane Doe 1," and "Jane Doe 2" alleged in a class-action complaint that Facebook gathered data about users' visits to health sites, including ones operated by the American Cancer Society, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Do People Know If You Snooze Them On Facebook? The New Feature Is So Helpful Elite Daily Facebook has taken a lot of heat this year, and when you log on, it's easy to see why. As useful as the social networking site is, there's one huge issue that often overshadows its positive traits: clutter. Between the status updates, promoted ads, notifications, and messages popping up, Facebook can often ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook tries to cut down on abuse and harassment CNET Another new tool involves the Facebook Messenger chat app and will let you automatically ignore messages from a contact without actually blocking that person. That's because blocking an abuser can sometimes make the abuse worse. When you choose the ignore option, the messages go straight to ... Flag as irrelevant
	WEB
	File:Narumi Kurosaki Facebook.jpg Wikipedia ... file size: 222 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg). Open in Media ViewerConfiguration. Photo of Narumi Kurosaki, Japanese citizen who went missing in France. Source: Ms. Kurosaki's Facebook page, via http://accion13.org.co/BuscanAUnChilenoPorDesaparicionDeJovenJaponesaNarumiKurosaki.htm ... Flag as irrelevant
	WhatsApp Warned Against Sharing Data With Facebook The Financial Gazette Just read an article on Bloomberg Technology talking about how WhatsApp and Facebook are in 'data trouble'. Reports say that France's data protection authority CNIL served WhatsApp with a formal notice stating that they (WhatsApp) only have a month to get their house in order and stop sharing data ... Flag as irrelevant

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