Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

Facebook just announced its latest round of “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” this time out of Iran. The company took down 262 Pages, 356 accounts, three Facebook groups and 162 Instagram accounts that exhibited “malicious-looking indicators” and patterns that identify it as potentially state-sponsored or otherwise deceptive and coordinated activity. As Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel […]... →

New research out of Stanford and New York University took a look at what happens when people step back from Facebook for a month. Through Facebook, the research team recruited 2,488 people who averaged an hour of Facebook use each day. After assessing their “willingness to accept” the idea of deactivating their account for a […]... →

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach Facebook managed to beat Wall Street’s estimates in its Q4 […]... →

Доходы компании увеличились несмотря на многочисленные скандалы... →

Facebook огласил финансовые результаты за четвёртый квартал 2018 года и год в целом. Согласно представленным данным, скандалы, которые на протяжении последнего года окружали компанию, не отразились на её показателях. Квартальная выручка Facebook составила $16,9 млрд, показав рост на 30% в сравнении год к году. Годовая выручка достигла $55,84 млрд, что на 37% больше, чем в […] Сообщение Выручка Facebook за четвёртый квартал 2018 года достигла $16,9 млрд появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Прибыль за четвертый квартал 2018 года стала рекордной... →

Roughly half of Instagram’s users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day. That 500 million daily user count is up from 400 million in June 2018. CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Stories the last big game-changing feature from Facebook, but after concentrating on security last year, it plans to ship more products that make […]... →

Facebook managed to beat Wall Street’s estimates in its Q4 earnings amidst a constant beat down in the press. Facebook hit 2.32 billion monthly users, up 2.2 perecent from 2.27 billion last quarter, speeding up its growth rate. Facebook climbed to 1.52 billion daily active users from 1.49 billion last quarter for a 2 percent […]... →

In response to TechCrunch’s investigation of Facebook paying teens and adults to install a VPN that lets it analyze all their phone’s traffic, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg. It admonishes Facebook for not spelling out exactly what data the Facebook Research app was collecting or giving users adequate information […]... →

It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users. Google has been running an app called Screenwise Meter, which bears a strong resemblance to the app distributed by Facebook Research that has now been barred by Apple. […]... →

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN […]... →

Facebook could face fresh scrutiny in Europe following a TechCrunch report on its use of a VPN app to monitor people’s smartphone activity — including teenagers as young as 13. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) told us it’s asked Facebook to provide more information on what data is collected via the market research program, codenamed ‘Project […]... →

In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their phone in exchange for $20 per month. Apple tells TechCrunch that yesterday evening it pulled the certificate that […]... →

Европейская комиссия призвала крупные интернет-компании, включая Google и Facebook, усилить борьбу с дезинформацией перед выборами в Европарламент. Об этом сообщается на сайте ведомства. «Сегодня Google, Facebook, Twitter и Mozilla, а также торговые ассоциации, представляющие рекламный сектор, подали свои первые отчёты о мерах, принятых с целью соблюдения Code of Practice on Disinformation. Определённый прогресс был достигнут, […] Сообщение Еврокомиссия призвала Google и Facebook усилить борьбу с дезинформа... →

Facebook прекратит работу версии Facebook Research для iOS после того, как стало известно, что это «приложение-шпион» устанавливалось за деньги на смартфоны подростков. Американская соцсеть, начиная с 2016 года, платила по $20 в месяц лицам в возрасте от 13 до 35 лет за установку приложения Facebook Research, отслеживающего всю активность пользователя. Фактически речь идет о «продаже» […] Сообщение Facebook Research для iOS прекратит свою работу из-за обвинений в слежке за пользователями появились сначала н... →

Некоторые предоставляли по просьбе соцсети скриншоты истории заказов в Amazon... →

Эта практика существует с 2016 года... →

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]... →

A first batch of monthly progress reports from tech giants and advertising companies on what they’re doing to help fight online disinformation have been published by the European Commission. Platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter signed up to a voluntary EU code of practice on the issue last year. The first reports cover measures taken […]... →

In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold. Next month, longtime Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) counsel Nate Cardozo will join WhatsApp, Facebook’s encrypted chat app. Cardozo most recently held the position of Senior Information Security Counsel with […]... →