Musk and friends are smothering the internet’s truth seekersDisinformation research groups in the US face challenges from lawsuits and probes, primarily by Republicans and Elon Musk. These legal acti...
28 Oct, 2024, 11.19 AM IST
In monitoring sex abuse of children, Apple is caught between safety and privacyA child advocacy group, Heat Initiative, has raised $2 million for a new national advertising campaign calling on Apple to detect, report a...
03 Sep, 2023, 01.37 PM IST
Will Meta's 'friendly' Threads thrive in an unfriendly internetIn a New York Times podcast on Thursday, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, acknowledged that Threads was more "supportive of public disc...
08 Jul, 2023, 08.28 AM IST
Driver's licenses, addresses, photos: Inside how TikTok shares user dataTikTok has downplayed the access that its China-based workers have to US user data. In a congressional hearing in March, TikTok's CEO, Shou...
29 May, 2023, 09.12 AM IST
Driver's licenses, addresses, photos: Inside how TikTok shares user dataTikTok's China-based employees have access to U.S. user data on an internal platform called Lark, according to internal reports and former ...
25 May, 2023, 08.00 PM IST
Amid strained U.S. ties, China finds unlikely friend in UtahSecurity experts say that China's campaign is widespread and tailored to local communities. In Utah, the AP found, Beijing and pro-China ad...
27 Mar, 2023, 12.47 PM IST
Elon Musk's Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limitsTwitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerf...
29 Oct, 2022, 09.33 AM IST
Apple wants to scan pictures on your iPhone to fight child abuse. What does it mean for your privacy?To many technologists, Apple has opened a Pandora’s box.
19 Aug, 2021, 05.42 PM IST
Microsoft's TikTok purchase put on hold in light of President Trump's ban threatTrump has pledged to get tough on the massively popular video-sharing app, which US officials have said could be a tool for Chinese intelli...
02 Aug, 2020, 08.41 AM IST
Facebook ad boycott sinks stock, raises pressure on Mark ZuckerbergShares plunged 8.3% on the news, eliminating $56 billion in market value.
27 Jun, 2020, 10.39 AM IST
No more 'Zoombombing', data hacking: Zoom rolls out new measures to address security concernsThe number of people taking part in Zoom meetings daily eclipsed 200 million in March.
17 Apr, 2020, 03.17 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's negative effectsThe social media platform had initially declined to share copies of the ads, saying it would compromise user privacy.
02 Oct, 2017, 05.45 PM IST
The new kind of notification that you never want to see on your FacebookFacebook just launched a new kind of notification that will warn users if it suspects their account has been targeted by an attacker.
19 Oct, 2015, 07.51 AM IST
Facebook's chief security officer follows Steve Jobs' lead and calls for an end to Adobe FlashNow, Facebook's new chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has stated publicly that he wants to see Adobe end Flash once and for all.
14 Jul, 2015, 12.43 PM IST