TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS: Meta had until August 4th to prove that it had measures in place to comply with Norwegian data protection law. We don’t play with the protection of personal data in Norway, even if we are called Meta. A Norwegian regulator on Tuesday fined the U.S. tech giant for serving targeted ads by exploiting user data from its Facebook and Instagram […]
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GREAT SHAPE: The Chinese platform, TikTok had already surpassed YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Beijing and Washington do not only clash with a “spy” balloon. The competition between the two powers is also played out at the platform level, and China, thanks to TikTok, is winning. After surpassing YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook in “time spent” by American adults on each platform, the platform, which […]
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ON INSTAGRAM: This 38-year-old individual “already known to justice” has been placed in pre-trial detention pending his trial, scheduled for spring, before the Nice judicial court. The matter was taken very seriously. A 38-year-old man who used Instagram to make repeated threats to Nice mayor Christian Estrosi and his family have been arrested and remanded in custody pending […]
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NOT HAPPY: It is unknown how many internet users actually deactivated or deleted their Facebook and Instagram accounts after the announcement Definitely, paying for your social networks is not a fashionable idea. Since the announcement on February 19 of the arrival of a paid subscription on Facebook and Instagram, Internet users have made their dissatisfaction known. On Google Trends, […]
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OPTION: The slogan of the Facebook social network launched in 2004 has long been “It’s free and it always will be” In a typical overstatement of capitalism, Mark Zuckerberg responds to Elon Musk. The boss of Meta (Facebook, Instagram) announced on Sunday the launch of a paid subscription starting at $11.99 per month to authenticate his account on […]
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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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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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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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INTERNET: A patent recently filed by Instagram suggests a new source of income for the application A new “feature” intended for influencers could very soon appear on Instagram. Indeed, according to a patent discovered by Mike Murphy, Instagram could consider charging bloggers for setting up links in post captions. A pop-up window would appear to ask the user whether or not […]
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SOCIAL MEDIA: The singer, Madonna released a video featuring one of the (many) conspiracy theories in circulation Madonna should have done her research better before posting a video on Coronavirus Covid-19. The Material Girl has indeed just been censored by Instagram following her conspiratorial post. Madonna censured by Instagram after sharing video about a coronavirus conspiracy theory […]
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