Facebook stocks break records despite privacy concerns
Facebook has been inching its way back up from an unprecedented decline in value after users' privacy concerns and congressional hearings against the company took center stage in the last two years, due to which the company lost over half of its value in 2018. Facebook recently reached a record high of 219.88 USD per share before decreasing 0.11 percent by the day's end.
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Zoom misses its deadline to publish the first transparency report
Video conferencing app Zoom missed its own deadline to publish its first transparency report. The video conferencing giant previously said it would release the number of government demands it has received by June 30. But the company said it’s missed that target and has given no firm new date for releasing the figures. It comes amid heightened scrutiny of the service after several security and privacy concerns came to light
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Apple granted patent for software that would let you take socially distant group selfies
According to the patent application (first discovered by Patently Apple), an Apple device user (it’s not clear whether the feature would be available on iPads, iPhones, or both) could invite others to take part in a group selfie, and the software would arrange them together in a single image.
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Privacy issue with Contact Tracing apps
Privacy issue with Contact Tracing apps
At this point, contact tracing apps have to collect a lot of information about you and share it with other organizations. For example, Jumbo Privacy recently found that North Dakota’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, Care19, shares user data with Google, Foursquare, and other companies.
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Facebook’s new feature to protect women privacy in India
Facebook has introduced a new safety feature in India, especially for women that will enable them to easily lock their accounts so that people they are not friends with on the platform cannot view their posts and zoom into and download their profile picture and cover photo. A user can lock the account by tapping on More under their name, then tapping the Lock Profile button and the confirmation button
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