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Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations

Facebook battled dueling crises Monday as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the...

Red flags — which platforms/services do internet users have most privacy concerns about?

Kaspersky analyzed anonymized data, voluntarily provided by Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various internet services and platforms....

WhatsApp tests breaking free from smartphones

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook...

Anti-trust action vs. Facebook dismissed

WASHINGTON—A US judge on Monday dismissed the blockbuster antitrust action against Facebook filed last year by federal and state regulators, helping lift the value...

Germany halts Facebook sharing WhatsApp data

A German regulator on Tuesday slapped a three-month ban on Facebook collecting user data from WhatsApp accounts and referred the case to an EU...

WhatsApp flap shows importance of message platform to Facebook

When WhatsApp users began to raise concerns about a new privacy policy being rolled out, members of a Washington pickup soccer group decided to...

India urges WhatsApp to withdraw new data-sharing policy

India's government Tuesday called on WhatsApp to withdraw planned changes to its data-sharing policy, citing concerns about users' privacy and security. The plans concern how...

WhatsApp stresses privacy as users flock to rivals

WhatsApp on Tuesday reassured users about privacy at the Facebook-owned messaging service as people flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal following a tweak to...

WhatsApp recordings throw lifeline to Sahel artists

Ali Traore, dressed in black, sits down to record in his lively courtyard in Mali's capital Bamako, with children frolicking on the dirt ground...

WhatsApp adds shopping carts in fresh e-commerce push

WhatsApp on Tuesday added virtual shopping carts people can load with purchases and then use to fire off orders to businesses as the Facebook-owned...

Austrian police swoop on 40 neo-Nazi suspects

Austrian police have mounted raids on 40 suspected neo-Nazis across the country accused of illegal activity online, the interior ministry said Tuesday. All suspects are...

Facebook takes aim at Zoom with video chat upgrade

Facebook on Friday unveiled a new video chat service with virtual "rooms" where people can pop in to visit friends, aiming at users turning...

Man killed over kidnapping rumors

New Delhi"•Indian police said Thursday that five people had been arrested for lynching a man after accusing him of kidnapping children, the latest in...

Fake news surges in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO"•Sri Lankan social networks saw a surge in fake news after the Easter suicide bombings a month ago despite an official social media blackout,...
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