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Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Analysis + Update As News Corp and Google strike global news payments deal and bill passes lower house

Personal Tech17 Feb 2021 | 126

Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get back on the phone with Australia for more pay-for-news talks

Compulsory arbitration code clears committee without amendments, but cracks show as one major local signs big Google deal

Legal15 Feb 2021 | 9

Phishing awareness gone wrong: Facebook tries to seize websites set up for staff security training

Antisocial network sued by Proofpoint in scrap over domain names

Security11 Feb 2021 | 44

Facebook and Google’s Australian pay-for-news nightmare finds a European admirer

MEP driving EU’s Digital Services Act backs down under cash dangle plan

Legal10 Feb 2021 | 32

Myanmar’s new military government bans Facebook

Oh look, Cloudflare spots a sudden surge in use of other messaging apps

Security04 Feb 2021 | 12

Burning platform: Linux Foundation swallows Magma, open source software for mobile networking kit

Liquid hot Facebook project tucked under penguin's wing

OSes03 Feb 2021 | 2

Microsoft backs Australia’s pay-for-news plan, risks massive blowback over a lousy $3bn and change

Analysis Promises to grease the skids for small business advertisers who get off Google and bound towards Bing

Personal Tech03 Feb 2021 | 60

In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web

I am once again asking for your financial support, says Zuckerberg's empire

Security01 Feb 2021 | 64

Facebook finally finds something it thinks is truly objectionable and needs to be taken offline: Apple

Devotes earnings announcement to trashing Cupertino over privacy as both post mega-profits

Personal Tech28 Jan 2021 | 48

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

Meanwhile, web giant agrees to cough up euros to French publishers

Personal Tech22 Jan 2021 | 80

Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch

Updated Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having

Personal Tech19 Jan 2021 | 27

Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions

Not a machine-generated headline, we swear

Personal Tech17 Jan 2021 | 31

India’s top techies form digital foundation to fight Apple and Google

App store fees and ‘privacy’ arrangements under fire

Software14 Jan 2021 | 5

Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?

Comment Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable

Personal Tech11 Jan 2021 | 221

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops

Personal Tech07 Jan 2021 | 173

React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components

Server-side React solves 'many other problems we have had for a while' says Core developer

Devops07 Jan 2021 | 51

If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

Updated If you don't agree then, well, you'll just have to use the infinitely better Signal

Personal Tech06 Jan 2021 | 143

Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine

Everyone’s favorite social media giant ordered to pay 3.8m euros

Software06 Jan 2021 | 43

Google reveals version control plus not expecting zero as a value caused Gmail to take an inconvenient early holiday

Meanwhile, Facebook seems to have enough technical debt that it’s blown a Euro-privacy deadline

SaaS21 Dec 2020 | 34

Facebook rolls out full-page ads, website complaining Apple is forcing it to get consent before tracking you

Updated Small-biz campaign tugs at heart strings, inadvertently promotes how iGiant is improving privacy

Personal Tech16 Dec 2020 | 59

As UK breaks away from Europe, Facebook tells Brits: You'll all be Californians soon

Boris can’t manage a US trade deal, so antisocial media giant has done it for him

Personal Tech16 Dec 2020 | 173

Australia sues Facebook for slurping user data from Onavo Protect VPN app

Promised it was free and safe, but Facebook’s promises about privacy aren’t worth the mouse you click ‘em with

Software16 Dec 2020 | 17

Leaked draft EU law reveals tech giants could face huge 6% turnover fines if they don't play by Europe's rules

As UK govt mulls eye-watering 10% penalties for goliaths that don't scrub away illegal content

Personal Tech15 Dec 2020 | 43

Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face

Multi-AG, FTC antitrust lawsuits focus on 'the wrath of Mark', potential break-up of social media giant

Personal Tech09 Dec 2020 | 42

Australia mostly sticks to its guns in final plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers

YouTube and Instagram exempted, Bill kicked into committee for a while

Personal Tech09 Dec 2020 | 21

Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy, pledges fight against 'data-industrial complex'

Offer does not apply in China

Personal Tech09 Dec 2020 | 26

Uncle Sam sues Facebook for allegedly discriminating against US workers in favor of foreigners on H-1B visas

Ad biz supposedly barely advertised jobs to staff if a visa worker applied

On-Prem04 Dec 2020 | 70

Arriving in 2021, the UK's Digital Markets Unit 'could' start to do something about the power of online ad giants

But Parliament seems a bit busy at the moment to legislate

Science27 Nov 2020 | 18

Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it

Human contractors battling COVID-19 stress and psychological trauma

Science21 Nov 2020 | 36

Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info

Tribunal ruling prevents the Zuckerborg from swallowing GIF peddler until further notice

On-Prem16 Nov 2020 | 14

None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales

Small Brit firm pushes back against Zuckerborg sueball

Security03 Nov 2020 | 12

Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app

'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit

Security29 Oct 2020 | 14

Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim

Comment With few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment

Personal Tech28 Oct 2020 | 31

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything

Personal Tech27 Oct 2020 | 94

Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds

Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection

Personal Tech27 Oct 2020 | 40

Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown

As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone

Legal26 Oct 2020 | 50

Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data

Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful

SaaS23 Oct 2020 | 22

To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever

Column History tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered

Security16 Oct 2020 | 103

Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body

Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami

Security15 Oct 2020 | 6

US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content

Analysis Clarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse

Personal Tech14 Oct 2020 | 43

California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data

Sorry not sorry, Facebook

Personal Tech13 Oct 2020 | 21

Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing

And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide

Personal Tech12 Oct 2020 | 126

Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board

What are the chances?

Personal Tech09 Oct 2020 | 44

UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?

Sure, millions of profile pages slurped via dodgy Facebook API though it didn't actually affect anything, it seems

Personal Tech08 Oct 2020 | 24

Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google

'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'

SaaS06 Oct 2020 | 58

Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content

Congress to probe whether Facebook crimps free speech

Legal30 Sep 2020 | 13

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

In Brief Also, Brazilian teen spots odd Instagram bug and nets $25K

Security28 Sep 2020 | 13

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

So says ex-director of monetization, adding this led to 'unprecedented engagement and profits'

Personal Tech25 Sep 2020 | 32

Not content with distorting actual reality, Facebook now wants to build a digital layer for the world

Data-harvesting test pilots to roam the streets wearing AR glasses and little lanyards explaining that you’re being recorded

Science17 Sep 2020 | 73

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Anti-social network asked to stop piping Irish uncles' mutterings to America

Security10 Sep 2020 | 96

Facebook to blab bugs it finds if it thinks code owners aren’t fixing fast enough

And reveals half a dozen WhatsApp bugs into the bargain

Security04 Sep 2020 | 5

Facebook rejects Australia's pay-for-news plan, proposes its own idea: How about no more articles at all, sunshine?

+Comment The toys are maintaining a constant horizontal velocity from the pram

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 43

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten?

Personal Tech29 Aug 2020 | 138

Facebook fires sueball at 'malicious' app SDK makers, accuses them of gobbling up people's personal information

Vacuuming up data? That's our job!

Personal Tech28 Aug 2020 | 19

Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy

New iOS update will rob people of personalized ads, wails antisocial giant

Personal Tech27 Aug 2020 | 91

Global network controlled by erratic billionaire Qracks down on Qanon Qranks

We’re talking about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg here, so the crackdown has cracks

Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 24