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Winterton said that for individual Facebook users, worrying about this data scraping won’t do much good – after all, the data is already out there. The company says it only ever received data on 30 million users, reports News.com.au.

Facebook will restrict 3rd-party API access, but not their own access to user data.

No notifications were sent to those who had messages deleted, nor was there any disclosure that such a thing was even possible. Only recently has the social media company taken steps to secure user data. And let’s not forget that the company gave Zuckerberg and others the...

“This may take some time”, he said. Executives in the company, like Zuckerberg and others, have seen their old messages deleted. As per Tech Crunch report, unless the “Unsend” feature is released for everyone, Facebook will not unsend or retract any more...

The Blues were rattled by a trio of first-half goals at Anfield and a valuable away goal evaded City in the second-half despite a much-improved performance.

Facebook also estimated that the data of 1,175,870 users from the Philippines, 1,096,666 users from Indonesia, and 1,079,031 users from the United Kingdom was shared, while several million users from Mexico, Canada, India, Brazil, Vietnam, and Australia were affected too. That...

A North Korean art troupe also travelled to the games and performed while there.

Reeling from the controversy and criticism after the disclosure, the social networking giant is trying to win back the confidence of its users.

The concert was attended by several leading North Korean officials including Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, North Korea’s ceremonial President Kim Yong Nam, along with other members of the regime.

The social network is hoping to prevent further misuse of ill-gotten data after Dr. Aleksandr Kogan’s app that pulled data on 50 million Facebook users was passed to Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebook policy.

“The social graph is changing the way the world works”, he says.

She said the company had also received complaints that “privacy settings and other important tools are too hard to find”. Facebook has his contact list, and what appears to be a pretty comprehensive record of every phone call he made, and text he sent, from a several...

Wylie was the man who revealed to the New York Times and the U.K.’s Observer newspaper the practices of Cambridge Analytica and the data harvesting that took place. “The EAPC is bipartisan and actively supports the growth of data analytics on both the left and...

New Privacy Shortcuts menu: The toolbar will provide access to setting in way that’s “clearer, more visual, and easy-to-find”, Facebook said.

The same MP who asked about India earlier went back to Facebook’s “biggest user market”.