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Facebook Decides To Back Off Creepy Hospital Data-Sharing Project for Some Reason
In what might be the shortest time yet for an Onion headline to nearly mirror reality, Facebook has backed off plans to share sensitive info about your inner life with doctors and hospitals. And all it took was the company being embroiled in a cataclysmic data-sharing scandal.
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Facebook Just Updated Its Terms And Data Policy, Good Luck Understanding It
In what it presumably hopes will be seen as swift and stern action to inform and protect its users, Facebook announced new terms of service and a new data policy on Wednesday. Don’t worry, though, it isn’t as though the company has gone soft in its war on privacy. It’s just more explicitly copping to…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Rote Talking Points Are Stronger Than Ever
It was recently revealed that Facebook lost control of 50 million users private data and it ended up in the hands of a sleazy political data analytics company. Then Mark Zuckerberg took five days to acknowledge the scandal. Now, Zuck is on a media tour and he’s refining his ruminative, valueless answers by the day.
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Report: Facebook Staff Suddenly Concerned About Privacy, Specifically Theirs
The ridiculous mess over at Facebook has continued to get worse, with staff allegedly in a full-on “uproar” over the fallout of the leak of consumer hardware VP Andrew Bosworth’s 2016 memo claiming things like terrorism and cyberbullying suicides were justifiable side effects of the site’s continued growth.