Tag: Social media

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March...

Telegram Agrees to Share User Data With Authorities for Criminal Investigations

In a major policy reversal, the popular messaging app Telegram has announced it will give users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in...

Discord Introduces DAVE Protocol for End-to-End Encryption in Audio and Video...

Popular social messaging platform Discord has announced that it's rolling out a new custom end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) protocol to secure audio and video calls. The...

LinkedIn Halts AI Data Processing in UK Amid Privacy Concerns Raised...

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed that professional social networking platform LinkedIn has suspended processing users' data in the country to train...

Meta to Train AI Models Using Public U.K. Facebook and Instagram...

Meta has announced that it will begin training its artificial intelligence (AI) systems using public content shared by adult users across Facebook and Instagram...

French Authorities Charge Telegram CEO with Facilitating Criminal Activities on Platform

French prosecutors on Wednesday formally charged CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating a litany of criminal activity on the popular messaging platform and placed him...

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France for Content Moderation Failures

Pavel Durov, founder and chief executive of the popular messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday, according to French television network TF1. Durov...

Meta Exposes Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Global Political Figures on WhatsApp

Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who...

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda

OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT...

Attackers Exploit Public .env Files to Breach Cloud and Social Media...

A large-scale extortion campaign has compromised various organizations by taking advantage of publicly accessible environment variable files (.env) that contain credentials associated with cloud...

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