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Canada’s privacy czar is taking Facebook to court after finding the social media giant’s lax practices allowed personal information to be used for political purposes. A joint report from privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien and his British Columbia counterpart released Thursday says it uncovered major shortcomings in Facebook’s procedures and called for stronger laws to protect […]

In the aftermath of New Zealand’s deadly mosque shootings, Facebook removed more than 1.5 million videos worldwide of the massacre that live-streamed on its platform. In an update released Saturday, company spokesperson Mia Garlick said 1.2 million of those clips were blocked before they could be posted. That means 300,000 made it online. Reached for

A trial in a 1987 double murder in the Pacific Northwest could be legally important. A case that could result in legal precedents involves William Earl Talbott II, 55, who is scheduled to go on trial on June 3 in Snohomish County Superior Court in Washington in a double murder committed nearly 32 years ago.

With data costs in South Africa amongst the highest on the continent, how can poor rural communities be expected to get online and join the fourth industrial revolution? Well, the village of Mankosi has been at the forefront of an experiment to bridge the internet gap and make cheap wi-fi a reality. And it’s a

Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed. Interested in Facebook? Add Facebook as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Facebook news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The Irish Data Protection Commission said

Not a single Facebook user reported the New Zealand mosque shooting while watching a livestream of the attack, the company said late Monday.  The real-time broadcast of the violence was seen fewer than 200 times, Facebook deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said in a statement. But it had begun gaining traction by the time the first

SHENZHEN, China — For one of the world’s largest technology companies, it should be a simple question: Who owns Huawei? As the Chinese smartphone and telecommunications equipment giant battles the United States government over whether it should be allowed to build the world’s mobile networks, the company has been going to great lengths to present

BBC Click’s Dan Simmons looks at some the week’s best technology stories including; The first all-female space walk is cancelled due to a lack of appropriately sized space suits The EU passed a law which holds tech firms responsible for material posted without copyright permission Estonia plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) judge to

Environmental activists who have brought disruption to the British capital for more than a week blocked the main entrance to the London Stock Exchange on Thursday, gluing themselves to the doorway while wearing LED displays reading “climate emergency.” Several demonstrators also climbed atop a train at Canary Wharf station in east London’s business district as

In his weaker moments, Mark Zuckerberg must worry he’s in his own personal hell, reliving the same crisis over and over in a bad, real-life remake of the movie “Groundhog Day.” Don’t look now, but Facebook is implicated in yet another large-scale data privacy snafu. That’s according to an unnamed senior source at the social