PRIVATE LIFE: Secure messaging app, Signal, tops downloads on Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries The secure messaging application is booming! Since its competitor WhatsApp warned Thursday that it would share more data with its parent company Facebook, Signal has been at the top of downloads on the Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries. […]
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WhatsApp will require its users to share their data with entities of the Facebook group. Me Merav Griguer, lawyer and teacher at Sciences-Po and Assas, deciphers the main issues of this regulatory change for users Whatsapp messaging usage data will be collected and shared from February 8th by the parent company Facebook. This decision, announced Thursday […]
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The decision of large networks like Twitter or Facebook to suppress accounts that are too radical and belligerent irrigates the smaller platforms which claim absolute freedom of speech. The assault on the Capitol is praised there “I’m scared for GAB, Andrew. With this new atmosphere in front of us, GAB is certainly going to be attacked and […]
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SOCIAL NETWORKS: With the “Digital Services Act”, the new European legislation will impose on all platforms “the duty to cooperate” to remove hate content The Digital Services Act, which will be presented on December 15 by the European Commission, will for the first time impose “means obligations” on social networks in the moderation of content. The […]
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Facebook and Instagram users are reporting a sudden outage in across Europe and parts of the UK today, 10th December London appears to be the worst affected area in the UK, according to the website DownDetector. The site monitors usage patterns across various online services and started receiving reports of problems at around 9am this […]
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PERSONAL DATA: Users will have until the 8th February 2021 to validate the new terms of use, otherwise they will no longer be able to use the WhatsApp application. Take it or leave it. At the start of 2021, WhatsApp will change the conditions of use of its services, and in particular, the way in which the application processes users’ personal […]
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VIRTUAL CURRENCY: The objective of this name change is to mark a little more distance between Diem – formerly Libra – and Facebook, its initiator The development of its cryptocurrency has not been a long quiet river for Facebook. The project has indeed been strongly criticized by many regulators. The latter feared that Facebook’s cryptocurrency could be a threat to the […]
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ECONOMY: This virtual Facebook currency will not look like it originally intended Announced in June 2019, the cryptocurrency imagined by Facebook would finally be ready to be launched, assures the Financial Times. Libra could indeed make its appearance in January 2021, after having faced many obstacles. Unexpected events that had a direct impact on the Facebook project. In the end, the Libra will not quite […]
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Facebook has said it will start removing false claims about new coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed jabs could be rolled out as soon as next week. The social media site will remove disinformation – including claims vaccines contain microchips or anything else not on the official ingredient list – but warned it will ‘not […]
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The obligation to stop transfers of personal data between the European Union and the United States has been suspended for the moment but will be reviewed in November by the Irish justice After obtaining a temporary suspension of a court decision asking it to stop the flow of personal data of users from Europe to the United States, Facebook is going further. The social […]
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