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Edison Research and Triton Digital posted “The Infinite Dial 2019”. It is the latest report in a series dating back to 1998 that covers consumer usage of media and technology and has tracked many new mediums as they develop. The Infinite Dial is the “gold standard” of nationally representative survey research. Regarding social media, the latest study finds the number
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a lengthy post on Facebook titled: “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking.” In it, he provides some information about things Facebook will do to protect the privacy of its users. Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook doesn't have a good reputation regarding privacy. I understand that many people don't think Facebook can or would even want to build
Did you give Facebook your phone number when it asked you to set up two-factor authentication? Be aware that Facebook is allowing people to look up user profiles based on the phone number the user added to their Facebook account. There is no way to completely hide your phone number. TechCrunch summarized this horrifying, privacy-breaching, Facebook problem this way: Last
TechCrunch reported that Facebook “will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store”. This comes after TechCrunch's investigation about Onavo code being used in a “Facebook Research” app that was sucking up data (including the data from teenagers). The Onavo Protect app will eventually shut down, and will immediately cease
The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee released a report titled “Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report”. The 18-month report is focused on Facebook. It concluded that Facebook broke privacy and competition law and should be subject to statutory regulation. The Guardian posted a detailed article about the report. It included a quote from it: “Companies like
Germany's Bundeskartellamt has prohibited Facebook from combining user data from different sources. This decision is not yet final, and Facebook has one month to appeal the decision to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. The decision covers the following data sources: Facebook-owned services like WhatsApp and Instagram can continue to collect data. However, assigning the data to Facebook user accounts will
TechCrunch released an extremely detailed article about the “Facebook Research” app that is well worth reading. This disturbing app was seeking teenagers (as well as adults aged 35 and younger) and paying users to install a VPN that sucked up all of a user's phone and web activity. Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up