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Incoming guidance by an expert steering body for European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s surveillance advertising business model: Large platforms such as Facebook and Instagram cannot force a “binary” pay or consent choice on users, according to a Politico report Wednesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the decision. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Oversight Board, Meta’s semi-independent policy council, it turning its attention to how the company’s social platforms are handling explicit, AI-generated images. Tuesday, it announced investigations into two separate cases over how Instagram in India and Facebook in the U.S. handled AI-generated images of public figures after Meta’s systems fell short on detecting and responding […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Ahead of a full meeting of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) this week (April 16 and 17), which is expected to produce guidance on a controversial tactic used by Meta to force Facebook and Instagram users to consent to its tracking, almost two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits have penned an open letter […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if you average one a year. Oculus’ Rift prototype […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Facebook is introducing a new, fullscreen video player on Wednesday designed to offer a more consistent design and experience for all types of video lengths, including short-form Reels, long-form videos, and even Live content, the company says. The upgraded player, which will first launch in the U.S. and Canada, aims to streamline the experience for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as not to compete with Netflix, a large Facebook advertiser. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Union has given its strongest signal yet that a controversial tactic rolled out by Meta last November to extract consent to tracking from regional users of Facebook and Instagram — by forcing them to choose between paying a monthly subscription or else agree to tracking — won’t wash under the bloc’s updated digital […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Remember when you would “poke” your friends on Facebook to get their attention, annoy them or just start a poke war? Well, Facebook is trying to bring back that experience with some small updates to the poking feature. The company announced on Tuesday that it recently improved the platform’s suggestions on who to poke and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free subscription in the European Union — currently the only way regional users of its social networks, Facebook and Instagram, can avoid its tracking and profiling. Meta’s lawyer Tim Lamb revealed the detail at a workshop taking place in Brussels today to discuss its approach to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Случайно замеченный пост в Facebook привел к интересным наблюдениям — и про стартапы, и про менеджмент, и про, извините, своеобразное мышление некоторых личностей. Итак, вот встреченный пост — автор Илья Красильщик, который начинал карьеру руководителем группы асессоров в Яндексе, потом поруководил Медузой, а потом вернулся в Яндекс и занялся проектом Лавка (доставка свежих продуктов, аналог Instacart, если я правильно понимаю), а теперь эмигрировал из рф, осел в Берлине и ищет себе применение…... →

Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram. Currently, the company demands a per-account fee of €9.99/month on web or €12.99/month on mobile for users in the region wanting to avoid its tracking. No other choice is offered — meaning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information (RFI) to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X about how they’re handling risks related to the use of generative AI. The asks, which relate to Bing, Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X, are being made under the Digital Services […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Several social media websites are experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. YouTube confirmed that some users are having trouble loading videos on the platform; meanwhile, platforms like Discord and Meta’s Threads, Facebook and Instagram are down as well. According to a post on Google’s support page, users may be experiencing an empty home page, error messages, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads and went down this morning, Discord is now also experiencing issues and is down for some users. The company’s status website states that it is currently looking at the issue. According to third party monitoring website DownDetector, the issues began at around 10:50 AM ET. Users are reporting that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing an outage on Tuesday morning. When loading the apps or websites, users receive an error message that “something went wrong” and to try again later, or, in the case […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commission. Today the bloc said it’s sent Facebook and Instagram’s owner a formal request for information (RFI) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), asking it to provide more detail on the “Subscription for no Ads options” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Meta is trying to distance itself from news media-related regulations and payment complexities as it is planning to remove the news tab on Facebook in the U.S. and Australia. The company said today that it will sunset the product in April 2024. Last year, Meta discontinued Facebook News in the UK, Germany, and France saying […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling one-time security codes that may have granted users’ access to their Facebook, Google and TikTok accounts. The Asian technology and internet company YX International manufactures cellular networking equipment and provides SMS text message routing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →