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Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger

Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger

Posted by | Apr 5, 2018 | |

Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down. The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said....

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WOMEN POSE FOR 2ND AMENDMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-TRUMP OPEN CARRY BABE

WOMEN POSE FOR 2ND AMENDMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRO-TRUMP OPEN CARRY BABE

Posted by | Apr 12, 2018 | , |

Second Amendment empowers women Pro-Second Amendment women are showing their support for the college student who posed with a firearm in a graduation photo — by posing with their own firearms in solidarity. “Here I am in solidarity with Brenna, also carrying in public. We will NOT allow for Leftist intimidation tactics to hinder our inalienable #2A rights,” tweeted Washington Examiner contributor Alana Mastrangelo on Wednesday. ABC News called the police on my friend, Brenna Spencer (probably hoping to get a better story). Here I am in solidarity with Brenna, also carrying in public. We will NOT allow for...

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Here’s the Data Facebook Can Learn From Your Selfies

Here’s the Data Facebook Can Learn From Your Selfies

Posted by | Apr 11, 2018 | , |

Today the Wall Street Journal listed all the data Facebook can grab when you upload a photo, based on Facebook’s privacy and data collection policies. The list illustrates what we’ve said before: Facebook doesn’t need to spy on your through your microphone, because you already let it spy on everything else you do. As the Journal says, Facebook gets your photo, your caption, and which user profiles you tagged. It studies your photos with facial recognition tech to see who’s in them. (That means if you take a photo in public, Facebook might recognize more faces in the shot...

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‘I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS’

‘I paid $90,000 to free my family from IS’

Posted by | Apr 9, 2018 | , |

Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali fled with his wife and children as Islamic State militants attacked their town in Iraq in 2014, but 19 other members of his family were captured. Over the last four years he has paid $90,000 for the release of 10 of them. But now, after the defeat of IS, he fears that any survivors may be beyond his reach. On 26 September last year, a red pick-up truck pulled into Sharya in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Inside sat 16-year-old Shaima. As the vehicle drew into the small, dusty village, friends and family crowded...

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News of Facebook’s secret tool to delete executive messages caps days of chaos

News of Facebook’s secret tool to delete executive messages caps days of chaos

Posted by | Apr 8, 2018 | , |

As Sheryl Sandberg mounts apology tour, company is under fire again over special privacy privileges not granted to regular users When Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, embarked on a media apology tour Thursday, it seemed possible that the woman known as Mark Zuckerberg’s “adult supervision” would bring calm to the troubled company’s image. But the past 48 hours have shown that not even Sandberg’s steady hand can keep this car from spinning out of control. On Friday, Facebook was again under fire, both over the discovery that the company has a two-tiered privacy standard (one for executives, one...

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