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Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law
If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc. users around the world would be protected by it, but the online social network is making changes that ensure the number ...
Ousting King Mark would be hard
As long as tech's next big thing remains far in the future, the social network will maintain its monopoly status.
Zuckerberg flubs details of Facebook privacy commitments made to FTC in 2011
Over two days of questioning in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he didn't know key details of a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that requires Facebook to protect user privacy. With congressional hearings over and no immediate momentum behind calls ...
The Orwellian danger of Facebook
Is Mark Zuckerberg really in control of Facebook? Or is he a sorcerer's apprentice that cannot handle the invention?
Is Facebook regulation 'inevitable'? Not so fast
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that regulation of his company is "inevitable," but still came to Washington prepared to defend against proposals he thought went too far. He rarely had to. After about 10 hours of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, markets rallied and ...
Facebook's Zuckerberg admits his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. But he pushed back on Congress members' suggestions that users ...
A victory for Zuckerberg at first Senate hearing
Facebook's economic model emerged unscathed despite hours of questions.
Zuckerberg deflects senators' efforts on regulating Facebook or changing how it does business
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business. During nearly five hours of questioning by 44 senators, Zuckerberg repeated apologies ...
Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg was prepared to cite competition with China if asked whether the social media giant should be broken up, according to internal notes the chief executive officer took to a congressional hearing on Tuesday. "Break Up FB? U.S. tech companies key asset ...
Contrite CEO Mark Zuckerberg dons suit, apologizes to Congress over vast Facebook breach
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed Tuesday his company is "working with" special counsel Robert Mueller in the federal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign — and working hard to change its own operations after the harvesting of users' private information by ...
Vietnam activists question Facebook on suppressing dissent
Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country. The letter, released on Tuesday by U.S.-based human rights group Viet Tan and signed ...
Facebook is displaying advertisements for well-known American corporations on group pages operated by overseas wildlife traffickers illegally selling the body parts of threatened animals, including elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger teeth. In a secret complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, wildlife preservation ...
