Life Meta employees will need a Covid-19 booster to return to the office Facebook's parent company has also delayed its return date to March as the Omicron variant continues to spread 11 Jan
Life France fines Google, Facebook €210m for making it difficult to reject cookies CNIL gives companies three months to provide a system for refusing cookies that is as easy as single click consent 6 Jan
Pro Meta files lawsuit to uncover hackers targeting Facebook, WhatsApp The company is seeking $500,000 from the unnamed threat actors that ran phishing scam on its platforms 21 Dec
Blogs The connected, the bad and the ugly Facebook believes information is power but claims to have little when it comes to educating users, says Billy MacInnes 15 Dec
Life Facebook hit with $150bn lawsuit over Myanmar hate speech The tech giant has been accused of failing to prevent disinformation from thriving on its platform 7 Dec
Trade UK regulator orders Facebook to sell Giphy The decision concludes a ten-month long investigation into the acquisition 1 Dec
Life Meta delays product-wide end-to-end encryption rollout until 2023 The company wants to 'take its time' to implement the technology in a way that both protects privacy and prevents exposure to online harms 22 Nov
Life Facebook is shutting down its controversial facial recognition system The move will see more than a billion facial templates removed from Facebook's records amid a push for more private applications of the technology 3 Nov
Life Apple’s ad transparency policy has cost Facebook, YouTube, Snap almost $10bn so far Estimate from the Financial Times says Facebook has been hit hardest by new rule requiring user consent 1 Nov
Radio CyberHive’s Gareth Lockwood on how quantum computing changes the rules of threat protection The changing landscape of cyber security and Facebook experiences more pushback 29 Oct
Blogs Big news: Facebook is going to change its name Don't worry, it's in service of an all-encompassing virtual universe, says Billy MacInnes 21 Oct
Life Facebook is reportedly planning to change its name Mark Zuckerberg might reveal new brand at next week's Connect conference 21 Oct
Life Facebook to hire 10,000 workers across the EU The high-skilled jobs drive is a “vote of confidence” in the European tech industry 18 Oct
Life WhatsApp backups to get end-to-end encryption Facebook says it's the final step towards a full end-to-end encrypted messaging experience on the chat app 15 Oct
Radio Facebook blown down, Windows 11 built up The social network comes under pressure and Microsoft releases its latest OS 8 Oct
Life US senators demand Zuckerberg answers Facebook whistleblower’s claims Haugen was branded "a 21st century American hero" by senator Ed Markey for her insight into the social network's operation 6 Oct
Life Facebook blames faulty configuration change for hours-long outage The update caused a "cascading effect" that brought all of the social network's services to a halt 5 Oct
Life Facebook put “profit before public safety” with algorithm change Ex-employee Frances Haugen reveals the social network's reasoning behind the 2018 news feed change 4 Oct
Pro Facebook opens Portal for Business device management service The new package is being launched alongside fresh Portal Go and Portal+ hardware 22 Sep
Life DPC threatens probe over Facebook’s Ray-Ban smart glasses Regulator is concerned about the potential for users to engage in covert filming 20 Sep
Trade DPC fines WhatsApp €225m over data sharing policies Finalised penalty almost five times larger than draft fine issued in December 2020 2 Sep
Life Hate speech on the decline on Facebook, company reports Social network claims removal of hate speech content has increased 15-fold 23 Aug
Radio ModelManagement.com’s Andreas von Estorff on fashionable AI Emerging tech for emerging talent, and the week's breaking stories 20 Aug
Trade UK regulator puts Facebook’s Giphy acquisition in doubt CMA says takeover will "negatively impact competition between social media platforms" 13 Aug
Radio NCAD’s Brian Gough on service design Samsung Unpacked leaks begin and why 27 September will be a sad milestone for Android 6 Aug
Radio Accenture’s Ray Eitel-Porter on ethical AI Exploring the difference between 'can we' and 'should we' in artificial intelligence 30 Jul
Life Google shuts down Play Store apps for stealing Facebook credentials The nine malicious Android apps boast nearly 6m downloads collectively 5 Jul
Radio Windows 11 is not quite here Microsoft puts back upgrades for the rest of us, and the rest of the week's news 2 Jul
Trade Facebook becomes a trillion dollar company The valuation was reached after the Federal Court dismissed the FTC's antitrust complaint against the social network 29 Jun
Pro Facebook unveils developer tools to boost business messaging on WhatsApp and Instagram The social network also revealed Messenger API for Instagram at its F8 Refresh conference 3 Jun
Trade Facebook to provide digital training for over 10,000 Irish SMEs 62% of Irish SMEs reported lower sales during pandemic 28 May
Life Germany bans Facebook from using WhatsApp data over GDPR concerns Hamburg's data protection commissioner issues three-month ban days before the app's new privacy policy rolls out 12 May
Life Facebook bans Signal’s crafty anti-tracking ad campaign Signal exposed social network’s data collection practices 6 May
Life DPC to investigate Facebook data leak Regulator believes ‘one or more’ GDPR provisions may have occurred following apparent leak of 533m user records 16 Apr
Radio They are listening Just because your data is switched off, doesn't mean your smartphone is not paying attention 16 Apr
Life Facebook sponsors F1 in Schools engineer of the future award Social network backs STEM efforts at second level 6 Apr
Life Facebook takes on climate change misinformation Giving users access to science-based news, approachable information, and actionable resources 18 Feb
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