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California reveals Facebook probe, accuses company of hampering the investigation
•Some states have raised concerns that Facebook and other tech companies engage in anti-competitive practices.
Facebook wants to give its users more control over their data with new privacy tool
•The 'Off-Facebook Activity' privacy tool is being rolled out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leveraged user data as 'bargaining chip' against rivals
Tech2 News Staff •Facebook rewarded companies that it favoured by giving them access to the data of its users.
Facebook paid $20 a month to teens to get complete access to their data: Report
Tech2 News Staff •Facebook is targetting users aged between 13-35 for what it calls a 'research' to learn user habits.
Germany’s antitrust watchdog to order Facebook to stop gathering user data
•The German watchdog objects on how Facebook acquires data on people from third-party apps.
User data harvest to fears of smartphone addiction, 2018 highlighted tech dystopia
•2018's tech scandals have been enough to exhaust even the most imaginative sci-fi visionaries.
Facebook claims it shared data with Netflix, Spotify with user permission
•Facebook says that the preferential data access was given to these apps with user permission.
'We made a mistake' admits Mark Zuckerberg after breaking his silence on Cambridge Analytica matter in a Facebook post
Tech2 News Staff •Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has issued an official statement in response to the Cambridge Analytica controversy.
Facebook force by Italian agency to share user data after complaint by victim of hacking
Fp Archives •The Italian data protection authority has ordered social networking site Facebook to hand over personal data of an Italian user that was hacked and used on his fake account by a "Facebook friend."
Facebook must turn over user data in sex video case, says Dutch court
Fp Archives •Facebook must turn over any information it possesses that could help a young woman find out who published a sex video of her without her consent, a Dutch court ruled on Thursday.
