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https://www.afinalwarning.com/510330.html (Natural News) A spokesperson for Facebook revealed that the tech giant did not notify the more than 500 million users whose personal data was stolen and distributed online. The spokesperson also said that the tech giant currently has no plans of ever informing them of the privacy breach. The social media firm chose not to notify affected users because it doubted it could identify which users needed to be notified, the spokesman said. The tech company also took into account the fact that users could not fix the issue and that their data was a...

Read more about What is scraping and how it was used to breach data at Facebook, LinkedIn on Business Standard. Facebook has previously filed cases against companies that have developed tools to scrape its user data; LinkedIn also said scraping violates its terms of service

Updated: February 10, 2021 11:47 IST The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge Share Article AAA U.S.-style "opt-out" data privacy class actions, which bind a defined group automatically into a lawsuit unless individuals opt out, are still unusual in Britain.   | Photo Credit: Reuters The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tec...

By Ionut Arghire on January 15, 2021 Facebook on Thursday announced that it took legal action against two individuals for scraping data from its website. In a lawsuit filed in Portugal, Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland seek permanent injunction against the two for violation of the social media platform’s terms of service and Portugal’s Database Protection Law. The social media giant says that the two created browser extensions that they made available for download through the Chrome Web Store. The extensions were being offered using the business name “Oink and Stuff.” A privacy pol...

Policy note on reforming sales tax launched Peshawar December 24, 2020 PESHAWAR: The Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) in collaboration with the International Growth Centre (IGC), Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) and the provincial government launched a policy note on ‘Reforming Sales Tax on Services in Khyber Pakht-unkhwa’ through a webinar. The note presents a framework for reforming Sales Tax on Services (STS) in the province through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority (KPRA). This policy note was driven by SEED’s strategic priority to provide...