Facebook has quietly alerted parents about a bug in Facebook’s Messenger Kids app. A design flaw enabled users to sidestep the system that allows parents to limit who can connect with their children. The Verge reported (and Facebook confirmed) that…
Well, that didn’t take long! The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing about Facebook’s Libra project on July 16, 2019. Reuters reported that the hearing will explore the Libra project as well as…
Facebook announced Libra, its very own cryptocurrency powered by blockchain technology. It is also introducing Calibra, a digital wallet for Libra. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app. Facebook expects to launch these products…
Facebook is planning to launch GlobalCoin, its very own form of cryptocurrency, in about a dozen countries in 2020. Facebook wants to start testing GlobalCoin by the end of 2019. Facebook wants to create a digital currency that provides affordable…
Several websites have reported that Facebook has banned a group of people who have broken the company’s Community Standards. More specifically, those recently banned have broken the “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” portion of Facebook’s and Instagram’s Community Standards. The “Dangerous…
At F8 2019, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives repeated a version of the phrase “the future is private”. Personally, that particular phrase is not one I would expect to hear from Facebook, given their multitude of privacy issues that…
Regulators, from several countries, are investigating Facebook’s privacy practices. This comes after Facebook has done numerous sketchy things with user’s personal information, passwords, and data. It seems to me that at least one of these investigations will result in meaningful…