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Facebook critics file FTC complaint over breach of 30 million accounts

Posted November 16, 2018 / Data collection, Facebook, News in Data collection, Facebook, News 0 0 0

Facebook critics file FTC complaint over breach of 30 million accounts The Verge Colin Lecher A coalition of Facebook critics has filed a complaint against the company with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate this...

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

Posted November 15, 2018 / Data collection, Facebook, News in Data collection, Facebook, News 0 0 0

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis The New York Times Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif....

Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education. This Town Fought Back.

Posted October 12, 2018 / Facebook, News in Facebook, News 0 0 0

Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education. This Town Fought Back. Intelligencer Nick Tabor Last year, several classes in Cheshire, Connecticut’s elementary and middle schools switched to a new classroom model, where lessons were supposed...

Facebook Wants Instagram to Know Where You and Your Children Are At All Times – A Dangerous Precedent

Posted October 5, 2018 / Campaign Updates, Facebook, News in Campaign Updates, Facebook, News 0 0 0

Oct. 5, 2018 Facebook Wants Instagram to Know Where You and Your Children Are At All Times – A Dangerous Precedent Statement of Kristen Strader, Campaign Coordinator, Public Citizen’s Commercial Alert Note: Published reports indicate that...

Facebook and Instagram change to crack down on underage children

Posted July 20, 2018 / Data collection, Facebook, Instagram, Marketing to kids, News, Social Media in Data collection, Facebook, Instagram, Marketing to kids, News, Social Media 0 0 0

Facebook and Instagram change to crack down on underage children Tech Crunch Josh Constine Facebook and Instagram will more proactively lock the accounts of users its moderators encounter and suspect are below the age of 13. Its former policy was...

Child campaigners to Zuckerberg: scrap Messenger Kids

Posted May 25, 2018 / Facebook, Marketing to kids, News in Facebook, Marketing to kids, News 0 0 0

Child campaigners to Zuckerberg: scrap Messenger Kids The Guardian Samuel Gibbs More than 21,000 child health advocates are petitioning Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to “pull the plug” on the company’s Messenger Kids app aimed at under...

Groups Call on Facebook to Disclose and Explain Its Collection of Psychological Insights About Its Youngest Users

Posted May 11, 2017 / Campaign Updates, Data collection, Facebook, Marketing to kids, News in Campaign Updates, Data collection, Facebook, Marketing to kids, News 0 0 0

Groups Call on Facebook to Disclose and Explain Its Collection of Psychological Insights About Its Youngest Users Facebook Told Marketers It Can Detect Teens Feeling ‘Insecure’ and ‘Worthless’; Data Could Be Used to Drive...

Facebook Is Developing Animated Selfie Masks for Brands

Posted January 30, 2017 / Facebook, Influencer Marketing, News, Snapchat in Facebook, Influencer Marketing, News, Snapchat 0 0 0

Facebook Is Developing Animated Selfie Masks for Brands Advertising Age Garett Sloane Facebook is in talks to let several Hollywood studios promote big-budget movies using new animated masks on the social network, according to media and ad...