privacy concerns with facebook
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You Can Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across Other Sites and Apps
It’s tough to use the internet without being tracked, but it’s not impossible. Companies are starting to hand us tools to help, such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature and DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection. Even Meta, the company that makes its living on data collection, is now offering you a way to control how Instagram…
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Instagram Is Making Outage Alerts Part of Its User Experience
Just a week after Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered two major global outages, the company’s back with an update that will make its tech hiccups easier to stay on top of. On Tuesday, Instagram announced that it was testing a new feature that would alert users at the top of their Activity Feeds when the…
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Researchers: Instagram ‘Bullied’ Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research
A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram’s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook “bullied” its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users.
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Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers
Facebook’s found a new way to capitalise on the thoughts, prayers (and data) from the religious side of its user base. On Thursday, the company confirmed that it’s begun expanding a new feature called “prayer posts” that will let members of particular Facebook groups literally ask for (and offer up) prayers for other folks on…