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1 in 8 Facebook users engaged in compulsive use of social media: Report

1 in 8 Facebook users engaged in compulsive use of social media: Report

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Facebook addiction is hurting sleep, work, relationships and parenting for about 360 million users. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has denied the report calling it the "problematic use of its platform"

06 November,2021 02:47 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Cyber agency asks FB users to enhance account privacy after global data leak

Cyber agency asks FB users to enhance account privacy after global data leak

"As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could be public. Data could also be collected and shared in ways you don't know about," the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team said.

22 April,2021 01:58 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online

Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online

The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses.

04 April,2021 12:00 AM IST | New York | AP
India asks for record access to Facebook users' data in 2020 first half

India asks for record access to Facebook users' data in 2020 first half

In total, India requested Facebook to provide data in 35,560 cases in the January-June 2020 period -- significantly up from 26,698 queries about users data in the second half of 2019

20 November,2020 11:15 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
'Facebook building privacy-focussed social platform'

'Facebook building privacy-focussed social platform'

Speaking at its flagship event F8 here, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that there are privacy concerns related to its platform, but asserted that he remains committed to bringing in changes and "starting a new chapter"

01 May,2019 10:40 AM IST | PTI
Experts: 2.2 billion Facebook users must log out, re-login across devic

Experts: 2.2 billion Facebook users must log out, re-login across devic

Facebook has reset the access tokens of almost 50 million accounts it knew were affected

29 September,2018 07:41 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Mark Zuckerberg says Global Facebook users to get 'good' EU-style safeguards

Mark Zuckerberg says Global Facebook users to get 'good' EU-style safeguards

Speaking at the VivaTech trade fair in Paris a day before new European data protection rules come into force Zuckerberg said Europe's history had made its citizens particularly wary when it comes to data collection

25 May,2018 03:09 AM IST | Paris | AFP
App exposed over 3 mn Facebook users' data for years, say report

App exposed over 3 mn Facebook users' data for years, say report

The data sets were controlled by David Stillwell and Michal Kosinski at the University of Cambridge

15 May,2018 11:39 AM IST | San Francisco | IANS
Facebook users to receive notification regarding data breach on April 9

Facebook users to receive notification regarding data breach on April 9

The social networking site Facebook will soon take a damage control move in respect to the massive data leak by the UK based analytics firm Cambridge Analytica

07 April,2018 10:00 AM IST | Washington | ANI
'Privacy of 5.6 lakh Indian Facebook users breached'

'Privacy of 5.6 lakh Indian Facebook users breached'

A marketing firm got the details through a quiz app and sold them to CA

06 April,2018 10:42 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies

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