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The company’s system for targeting ads is under fire for gender and ethnic bias. In some cases, the cure could be worse than the disease.
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation and safety. The goal? To find out which other […]
CrossFit’s decision Monday to deactivate all Facebook and Instagram pages indefinitely was fueled by growing data and privacy concerns with the social media giant, Greg Glassman revealed on a call…
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Legal experts believe Facebook profiling may run afoul of federal law on credit checks.
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An armed man walks into a pizzeria. Terrified customers gather their children and rush out. But the man is there hoping to protect children. That is a true story. However, the armed man was in the pizza place, in early December, because of a fake news story—or, to put it more accurately, because of misinformation [...]
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.
Black Facebook users complain they can't talk about racism without being censored for hate speech. Civil rights groups want Facebook to fix it.
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Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches.
For example, jobs with taxi companies were overwhelmingly delivered to black users and secretarial ads to women, despite neutral targeting preferences.
The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that...
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The company was careless with the information of some of its poorest users.
Repercussions from the scandal swirling around the data analytics firm continue to be felt across the tech industry.
A federal grand jury is looking at partnerships that gave major tech companies broad access to Facebook users’ information.