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- ICE uses Facebook data to find and track immigrants https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/ 15 comments
- Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/facebook-finds-a-new-way-to-liberate-your-gmail-contact-data/ 81 comments
- Facebook founder finds a way to profit from its members' private data http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/Networking-site-cashes-in-on-friends.html 39 comments
- Facebook Is the Least Trusted Major Tech Company When it Comes to Safeguarding Personal Data, Poll Finds http://fortune.com/2018/11/08/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-reputation/ 14 comments privacy
- Facebook Is the Least Trusted Major Tech Company When it Comes to Safeguarding Personal Data, Poll Finds http://fortune.com/2018/11/08/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-reputation/ 663 comments technology
- Cambridge Analytica’s Use of Facebook Data Broke British Law, Watchdog Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/cambridge-analytica-arron-banks.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes 8 comments politics
- Psychometrics: How Facebook data helped Trump find his voters https://www.dawn.com/news/1396666 11 comments politics
- Was your Facebook data shared with Cambridge Analytica? You can now find out http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/09/technology/facebook-data-tool-cambridge-analytica/index.html 6 comments politics
- How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica https://gizmodo.com/how-to-check-if-your-facebook-data-was-stolen-by-cambri-1825100272 4 comments worldnews
- How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica https://gizmodo.com/how-to-check-if-your-facebook-data-was-stolen-by-cambri-1825100272 4 comments technology
- ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/ 30 comments worldnews
- Facebook says sorry with UK newspaper ads as report finds it was warned of data risks in 2011 http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/25/facebook-says-sorry-with-uk-newspaper-ads-report-finds-it-was-warned-data-risks-2011 5 comments worldnews
- Finding the True Border Between Yankee and Red Sox Nation Using Facebook Data http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/finding-the-true-border-between-yankee-and-red-sox-nation-using-facebook-data/ 98 comments baseball
- Finding the True Border Between Yankee and Red Sox Nation Using Facebook Data | The Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/finding-the-true-border-between-yankee-and-red-sox-nation-using-facebook-data/ 4 comments baseball
- Facebook founder finds a way to profit from its members' private data http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/networking-site-cashes-in-on-friends.html 23 comments reddit.com
- EU top court sides with Germany in Meta antitrust case: Facebook owner Meta had challenged the 2019 finding of Germany's anti-monopoly watchdog, which ordered the firm to get consent from users for data collection. The ruling could imperil the position of other tech giants https://www.dw.com/en/eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case/a-66113717 8 comments worldnews
- Dutch court finds Facebook misused data in class action suit https://www.reuters.com/technology/dutch-court-finds-facebook-used-dutch-personal-data-incorrectly-2023-03-15/ 2 comments technews
- Chief D.C. Judge Finds Jan. 6 Rioter Who Live-Streamed Capitol Breach on Facebook Had No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Location Data https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/chief-d-c-judge-finds-jan-6-rioter-who-live-streamed-capitol-breach-on-facebook-had-no-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy-in-location-data/ 9 comments law
- Find Out if You're Eligible for Part of the $90M Facebook Data Tracking Settlement https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/facebook-lawsuit-2022-see-if-youre-eligible-money-from-90-million-class-action-settlement/ 18 comments privacy
- Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/22/tech-trust-survey/ 1074 comments technology
- Facebook friendships can help predict Covid-19 spread, study finds - Data from early hotspots in US and Italy suggests social network could help identify at-risk areas https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/facebook-friendships-can-help-predict-covid-19-spread-study-finds 7 comments technology
- Smoking, depression apps sell your data to Google and Facebook, study finds https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/29/smoking-depression-apps-data-google-facebook/ 44 comments worldnews
- Smoking, depression apps sell your data to Google and Facebook, study finds https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/29/smoking-depression-apps-data-google-facebook/ 29 comments technology
- The head of Germany’s antitrust watchdog said on Monday he was “very optimistic” that his office would take action against Facebook this year after finding it had abused its market dominance to gather data on people without their consent. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-antitrust-facebook/german-antitrust-watchdog-eyes-steps-against-facebook-this-year-iduskcn1mb1vj 99 comments worldnews
- ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/ 16 comments worldnews
- ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/ 35 comments technology
- ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/ 65 comments politics
- Research finds Facebook holds personally identifiable data on 40% of EU population https://thenextweb.com/eu/2018/02/20/facebook-holds-personally-identifiable-data-on-40-of-eu-population 5 comments privacy
- Facebook's Graph API limits queries to people you're friended to or who grant access to an app you've written. To get around this I wrote a class library to pull down nice dictionary lists with public data from any profile. Thought maybe some folks here would find this useful as well. http://k8pl.us/wiki/doku.php?id=fscout 4 comments webdev
- Just finished an indie game and ran nearly identical ads on Reddit and Facebook. After doing a quick analysis of the ad data I thought other Indie Devs may find the info useful. http://roygbeats.blogspot.com/2011/10/running-indie-game-ads-on-facebook-and.html 6 comments gamedev
- Facebook could have 4.9bn dead users by 2100, study finds: Deceased may outnumber the living if current growth rates continue, raising questions about what happens to our data https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/29/facebook-dead-users-2100-oxford 59 comments worldnews
- Amazing how people suddenly realize they don’t own their data on Facebook. Let’s see how they react when they find out they dont own the money in their bank accounts either! https://twitter.com/LeoAW/status/984726735563313152 100 comments btc
- Amazing how people suddenly realize they don’t own their data on Facebook. Let’s see how they react when they find out they dont own the money in their bank accounts either! https://twitter.com/LeoAW/status/984726735563313152 344 comments ethereum
- As concerns about Facebook and data privacy grow, economists assess how much Facebook is worth to people: "We consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year". https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101 6 comments technology
- Reddit, I just wanted to thank you for not sending our data to advertising companies that could be used to find names and other personal details, especially after promising that you don't share such information without consent... unlike Digg and Facebook whom have sold their users out! http://www.dailyelectronic.com/facebook-and-others-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Reddit I just wanted to thank you for not sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent... Unlike Digg and Facebook http://www.dailyelectronic.com/facebook-and-others-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Home Depot Canada routinely shared customer data with Facebook owner, privacy commissioner finds | Investigation finds Home Depot collected email addresses for electronic receipts and sent data to Meta without obtaining proper consent from customers https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/01/26/home-depot-canada-routinely-shared-customer-data-with-facebook-owner-privacy-commissioner-finds.html 827 comments technology