Google Alert - facebook

	facebook As-it-happens update ⋅ April 20, 2018
	NEWS
	Calling Facebook a Utility Would Only Make Things Worse WIRED Six million advertisers use Facebook's vast data holdings to perfectly target ads reaching more than 1.4 billion daily (and 2.1 billion monthly) active users, amounting to almost 40 percent of the global internet population. That enormous user base forms a castle wall around Facebook's core ad business, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook removes 1.5 billion users from protection of EU privacy law Ars Technica Irish data laws will now only apply strictly to EU users. By eliminating the link to Irish data-protection law, Facebook is removing 1.5 billion users from the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect next month. The United States, for example, does not enshrine an affirmative right ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook's damage limitation drive hits trouble in Germany Reuters A German data privacy regulator said it was opening a non-compliance procedure against Facebook in relation to the data leak to the consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, that was exposed a month ago. The city-state of Hamburg's Data Protection Commissioner, Johannes Caspar, notified Facebook in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook doubled its European lobbying spend to $3 billion to handle crises like fake news and ... Business Insider Filings show Facebook shelled out a record amount on its European lobbying operations in 2017, doubling spend to $3 billion. The company faced multiple crises last year, including the spread of fake news, terrorist content, and election interference. European officials have called on Mark Zuckerberg ... Flag as irrelevant
	WEB
	Audit Approved of Facebook Policies, Even After Cambridge Analytica Leak Slashdot Nicholas Confessore reports via The New York Times: An auditing firm responsible for monitoring Facebook for federal regulators told them last year that the company had sufficient privacy protections in place, even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was impr... Flag as irrelevant
	UPDATE 2-Facebook's damage limitation drive hits trouble in Germany CompuServe.com Data privacy official probes Facebook over data leak. * 'View ads' to be ready in time for Bavarian election. * Lawmakers accuse Facebook of evasion (Adds Facebook comment on probe in eighth paragraph). BERLIN/FRANKFURT, April 20 (Reuters) - Facebook's attempt to limit fallout from a massive ... Flag as irrelevant
	Facebook Responds to Cambridge Analytica Scandal OTELCO Facebook has faced public and political backlash after it was revealed that they allowed company voter profiling Cambridge Analytica to access and misuse 87 million user's personal information. Read the response of two people directly affected, and learn how to protect yourself going forward. Flag as irrelevant

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