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Parler, a particular alternative social-media platform that is known for its lax approach when it comes to moderating content appears to be experiencing a huge outage as of Friday evening. A number of users of this platform had tweeted that they were not able to access Parler s official website and app.
Parler ban Apple
According to an article by Business Insider, Parler did not give any response to a certain request for comment regarding this story. The reports of Parler s outage currently coincides with the reports that Apple is now threatening to ban Parler from its own App Store due to serious complaints.
Facebook s decision to disable features
Facebook has temporarily disabled some of the said features in order to follow the new rules on data usage in EU countries. It is a part of the national implementations that are currently taking place of the 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive or ePrivacy Directive.
This directive imposes stricter rules on data use across apps and communication services that operate in countries that are part of the European Union, according to TechCrunch.
Back in November, European Union lawmakers have laid out a proposal to encourage the reuse of industrial data by creating a standardized framework of tools and techniques to make sure that sharing data is secure and is under privacy-compliant conditions.
12 December 2020, 7:25 am EST By
The tech giant Facebook has been facing privacy concerns due to its company policies that are deemed highly intrusive by privacy experts. Mark Zuckerberg and his company have been monitoring its users from their favorite activities to our personal relationships and even our deepest secrets.
Here are some things Facebook knows about you that you may not be aware of. We will not be surprised if what you will find out may prompt you to delete your account in Facebook or other services it offers.
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1. Your current location and those you visited in the past