Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger
Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in 2016, will now be the standard for all users going forward, according to Messenger head Loredana Crisan. “This has taken years to…
UK Minister Warns Meta Over End-to-End Encryption
Britain’s interior minister on Wednesday warned tech giant Meta that rolling out end-to-end encryption on its platforms must “not to come at a cost to our children’s safety”. Suella Braverman and security minister Tom Tugendhat have called on the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to “work with us” and ensure police can access…
Meta fined $1.3B for violating EU GDPR data transfer rules on privacy
Meta has been fined $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the terms of the EU’s GDPR by continuing to transfer EU users’ data to the US without adequate safeguards. Meta has failed to “address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of Facebook’s European users, the DPC…
$275M Fine for Meta After Facebook Data Scrape
Following the discovery of a data set of Facebook user personal data available on the Internet, the European Union’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has found Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (MPIL) in violation of General Data Protection Regulation rules, fining the platform $275 million (€265 million), and requiring the company to make cybersecurity changes. The breached…
New Open Source Tool Shows Code Injected Into Websites by In-App Browsers
Some mobile applications use built-in browsers to allow users to quickly access third-party websites. Other apps include a browser to load their own resources, which may be needed to perform various activities. However, these internal browsers could also pose security and privacy risks. Researcher Felix Krause published a blog post earlier this month claiming that…
Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse
Some major tech companies have unwittingly opened harassment and exploitation opportunities to the women and children who they have pledged to protect. This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had compromised. This finding came from four federal law enforcement agencies and a couple…
Russia Blocks Access to Facebook Over War
The agency, Roskomnadzor, said Friday it decided to cut access to Facebook over its alleged “discrimination” of the Russian media and state information resources. It said the restrictions introduced by Facebook owner Meta on the RT and other state-controlled media violate the Russian law. A week ago, the watchdog announced “partial restrictions” on access to…
Facebook to Shut Down Face-Recognition System, Delete Data
“This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “Its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.” He…
