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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has shared its opinion about Facebook's full-page newspaper ad campaign against Apple's AppTrackingTransparency feature on iPhones. The EFF described Facebook's campaign as “laughable”. Facebook claimed that Apple's new AppTrackingTransparancy for iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 “will hurt small businesses who benefit from access to targeted advertising services.” EFF points out that Facebook is
Apple has responded to Facebook's criticisms about Apple's upcoming iOS 14 update. Specifically, Facebook appears to be angry that the update will require people to opt-in to targeted advertising and tracking. Apple provided a statement to MacRumors about the update: We believe that this is a simple matter of standing up for our users. Users should know when their data
Starting early next year, Apple will enable a change in an upcoming iOS 14 update that Facebook is really angry about. MacRumors reported that the change will require users to grant permission for their activity to be tracked for personalized advertising purposes. Facebook clearly does not want people to be able to opt-out of targeted advertising. Bloomberg reported that Facebook
Germany's Bundeskartellmt (which TechCrunch translates as Germany's Federal Cartel Office), has initiated abuse proceedings against Facebook to examine the linkage between Oculus virtual reality products and the social network and Facebook platform. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartllmt wrote: “In the future, the use of the new Oculus glasses requires the user to also have a Facebook account. Linking virtual
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has sued Facebook. The FTC alleges that Facebook is illegally maintaining its personal social network monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit comes after a lengthy investigation in cooperation with a coalition of attorneys general of 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. The FTC is seeking a
The New York Times reported some details about how Facebook and Twitter will handle President Trump's accounts after he is no longer a world leader. Once again, it appears that the two social media companies have very different plans about how to respond to whatever Trump posts after his presidential term is over. In a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,
Facebook has placed labels on content that includes misinformation about elections. The labels have been added to some of President Trump's posts in which he made claims about the election that Facebook deemed to be false information. Unfortunately for Facebook (and its users), the labels did almost nothing to stop the spread of false information posted by President Trump. BuzzFeed