US Approve $5B Facebook Fine, Shares Soar
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July 15, 2019
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The US Federal Trade Commission has voted to fine Facebook roughly US$5 billion over its mishandling of data, including the Cambridge Analytica... Read More
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Facebook Suffers Global Outage
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Facebook Enters Video Chat Hardware Market With New Portal
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Internet Giants Join Campaign To Scupper Oz Encryption Bill
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Aussies Beware Cyber Chief Predicts New Phishing Attack
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ACCC Calls On Google, Facebook To Crackdown On Fake-Ad Scams
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September 26, 2018
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called on Google, Facebook and Instagram to do more to crackdown on fake ads to... Read More
Facebook Creates AI Tool To Automatically Fix Bugs
Facebook has created SapFix, an artificial intelligence tool designed to automatically generate fixes for bugs then propose them to engineers. “With SapFix,... Read More
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