Cambridge Analytica

A recent photo API bug revealed that the Facebook app gave away more than 68 lakh photos of up to 5.6 million users to app developers. To our surprise, these are the photos which were never uploaded to Facebook.

When social media giant Facebook gets involved in an incidence regarding a massive data leak affecting 87 million users, shared with a British data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, it is natural for users to lose sleep on this topic.

WhatsApp has issued a statement that only ‘limited’ payment data pertaining to WhatsApp Payment is being shared with Facebook.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has recently released a bidding document for private and public companies. As per the details shared in this bid document, Govt. wants to create a social media tracking tool, which can snoop into the…

Facebook has announced via a blog post that they have revamped their security for all users, and in this endeavour, they have made their Two-Factor Authentication easier, and more seamless. In order to bypass the need for a mobile number,…

As per the report, Indian Govt. made 17262 requests to Facebook, seeking Facebook data of users. After the US, India is the country with the maximum number of such requests. Overall, globally, there were 82,341 requests made to Facebook,…

Facebook has announced a Data Abuse Bounty program, which will now reward users who will report any if any apps are found to misuse data. If you find an app on Facebook to be abusing user data, you can notify Facebook through the Data Abuse…

After a beta run, the WhatsApp payments feature still awaits a full roll out. But in the latest report, it has been revealed that WhatsApp may have shared the payments data of users with its parent Facebook. The WhatsApp payments feature is…

The new privacy settings have a redesigned settings menu with a lot of new options. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed how Facebook has misused personal information of millions of users and how Facebook may potentially…

Despite the controversy erupted regarding data harvesting of Facebook users by some firms and using that to influence elections in the US and other parts of the world, Facebook and Election Commission will remain as partners for the…