Internal email reveals Facebook s plan to normalise data scraping
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The company intends to deflect criticism by framing scraping as a broader industry issue
Internal email reveals Facebook s plan to normalise data scraping s intent to label data scraping incidents as a normalised, broad industry issue .
Data News, a Facebook representative gave details of the firm s long-term strategy for dealing with the data scraping issue.
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Europeans affected by Facebook leak urged to join mass action lawsuit
Irish civil rights group Digital Rights Ireland says affected people could be awarded between €300 and €12,000
Europeans affected by Facebook leak urged to join mass action lawsuit
Social media giant Facebook is facing a mass action lawsuit in Europe over the recently reported data leak, which exposed the personal details of more than 530 million users online.
Irish civil rights group Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) says it plans to sue the tech giant in Irish courts on behalf of the thousands of Facebook users whose data was exposed.
The group has made a formal complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), and is preparing to take the case to court.
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Updated: 16 Apr 2021, 18:16
IRELAND’s new media commission must be able to come down hard on social media companies that target vulnerable individuals for profit, it has been claimed.
Instagram were recently forced to apologise after their algorithms were offering diet products to people with eating disorders.
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Instagram algorithms targeted people with eating disordersCredit: Alamy
Now Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has insisted that the planned new Media Commission will have the power to monitor and take action on the use of algorithms and by social media companies.
Senator Byrne said: “This is a huge area as more and more decisions are being made by simply using machine learning.