Facebook is restricting publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in retaliation for a proposed "media bargaining" law.
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said Thursday that the company and its Irish unit have filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two people who they accuse of scraping user-profiles from its website.
What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company accused the unnamed defendants of violating its terms of service and Portugal’s Database Protection Law in a statement.
The individuals operated under the business name “Oink and Stuff” and allegedly misled users into installing extensions with a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information.
The four malicious extensions were made available on
Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome store, as per Facebook.
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Amid WhatsApp Privacy Row and iOS 14 Security Prompt, Facebook Revamps Access Your Info Tool
The Access Your Information tool on Facebook now has eight categories, further sub-categories, better explanations and a search bar, among other things.
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The Facebook group is hardly a stranger to persistent issues of privacy. Over the past few weeks, it came up with full-page ads claiming to be an advocate for small businesses and speaking up against Apple’s clearly pro-privacy move with iOS 14’s new data collection and permission prompt. Now, the Mark Zuckerberg-led group found itself in hot waters yet again after its personal communications app, WhatsApp, announced a policy change that in effect opened a can of worms about how the entire web of Facebook collects and shares user data at will. Almost as if in response to all this, Facebook yesterday issued an update to its privacy transparency tool, Access Your Information.