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Sneha Bhardwaj December 20th, 2018 10:09 AM 1 COMMENTS

Facebook Reiterates it Never Allowed Partners to Access Private Messages Without Users Permission

Facebook has once again reiterated that it never allowed its partners to access private messages without a user's permission. In a new blog post, Facebook Vice President of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said late on Wednesday that the social networking giant worked closely with four partners to integrate messaging capabilities into their products so people could message their Facebook friends -- but only if they chose to use Facebook Login.... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 19th, 2018 4:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Reportedly Shared Users’ Personal Data to Tech Companies Like Microsoft, Amazon and More

Social media giant Facebook has been sharing its users' personal data, including private messages and contact information for users' friends, with some of the world's largest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon, far beyond what it has publicly admitted, according to leaked internal documents. Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read users' private messages. They allowed Microsoft's search engine Bing to see the names of Facebook users' friends without... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 14th, 2018 4:29 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Watch Video-on-Demand Service is Now Available for Desktop Users

Over 400 million people are using video-on-demand service Facebook Watch monthly and 75 million people daily who spend at least one minute on Watch, the social networking platform has announced. Launched in the US in 2017, the video service allows users to enjoy videos from different genres, including entertainment, sports and news in their personalised "Watch Feed" that carries a collection of recent videos from the pages they follow. "Well,... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 7th, 2018 6:37 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp to Deploy Proactive Artificial Intelligence Tools to Check the Spread of Fake Messages

Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter will soon deploy 'proactive, artificial intelligence (AI) based tools' to check the spread of hate messages and rumours inciting violence and crimes against women, Home Ministry officials said Friday. Anyone found involved in disseminating fake news creating social tension will be identified, name disclosed and prosecuted. This was agreed upon after a series of meetings between representatives of the social media... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj December 6th, 2018 3:43 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Messenger Lite for Android Receives Animated GIF Feature

Facebook's Messenger Lite has got richer with more features such as animated GIFs and most customisation features that were available in the full-sized Messenger app. "While you could receive GIFs in Messenger Lite for some time, they were not animated. Starting now, people can express themselves more in chats with family and friends by sending and playing animated GIFs. "To send a GIF, use a third party keyboard (such as... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj November 21st, 2018 2:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Announces New Feature That Shows How Many Minutes You Spent on the App

Just days after photo-messaging app Instagram rolled out the feature to track users' time spent on the app, Facebook has now released "Your Time on Facebook" tool that counts how many minutes people spend on the app. The feature is designed to help users manage social networking by maintaining time spent per day on Facebook on a particular device for the past week and on an average, TechCrunch reported on... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj November 8th, 2018 1:38 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Messenger Will Soon Allow Users to Delete Messages Within 10 Minutes of Sending

Facebook is planning to roll out a new update to Messenger that will allow users to delete sent messages from chat threads within 10 minutes of sending. A Twitter user spotted the feature listed as "coming soon" in the release notes for version 191.0 of Messenger's iOS client, The Verge reported on Wednesday. "Coming soon: Remove a message from a chat thread after it's been sent. If you accidentally send... Read More

Chakri K October 22nd, 2018 5:53 PM 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Asked by Japan to Improve the Protection of Personal Data

Japan on Monday urged Facebook to improve the protection of personal data following a string of incidents in which the information of millions of users of the social networking site was leaked. The Personal Information Protection Commission adopted a resolution on Monday asking Facebook to take measures to prevent similar incidents, the first such warning by the body to the social media giant, reports Efe news. The document said that... Read More

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 8:27 PM 8 COMMENTS

Facebook Allows Users to Initiate Group Chats With 250 Persons

Facebook Groups gets the ability to initiate chats with 250 people at one go. According to the social media giant, this new feature allows its 1.4 billion active users of the all to collectively plan events, arrange in-person meetings, or have deeper discussions with their close ones or people of familiar interests. Facebook is rolling out the ability for members of Facebook Groups to launch group chats that, up to... Read More

Chakri K October 2nd, 2018 12:57 PM 1 COMMENTS

Facebook Asked by India to Provide an Update on the Latest Hack

Facebook is currently in a tough spot as the Information and Technology Ministry has asked the social networking company to give an 'update' on how many Indian users are affected by the latest hack happened on the portal. According to the information available, Facebook confirmed that about 50 million accounts were hacked on the portal by hackers stealing the digital keys of user accounts. A couple of Senior IT officials,... Read More

Arpit Sharma October 1st, 2018 12:17 PM 6 COMMENTS

Facebook Fined $1.63 Billion Over Fresh Data Breach of 50 Million User Accounts

Facebook has been the most controversial companies this year as the social networking giant is in the news for all the bad. After the Cambridge Analytica scandal which shook the entire world, Facebook has confirmed yet another massive data breach on the platform, under which hackers got rid of 50 million user account details including those from India. Now, the privacy watchdog, European Union (EU) is likely to impose a... Read More

Arpit Sharma September 29th, 2018 4:56 PM 17 COMMENTS

This Is Why I Deleted My Facebook Account and Why You Should Too

There was a time a few years ago where people were flocking around in millions to log in to the biggest social media network on the planet – Facebook. Today seems to be a different day for the social media giant, as now users are quitting and deleting their Facebook accounts by the masses. Following the Cambridge Analytica hack, Facebook suffered a massive backlash from the tech community and the... Read More