Taking a page from the playbooks of other American tech companies, Facebook has not stood idle as regulators steadily lined up against it. 在监管机构纷纷发难之际,Facebook并未坐以待毙,而是借鉴了其他美国科技公司的经验。 The company has hired a number of prominent former lawmakers and regulators,...
Whether or not the masses can pay to use online services, Facebook undeniably faces a rich world/poor world conundrum. Its growth is in the latter, but its profitability lies in the former. Last year the number of overall users grew 9%, much of the growth coming from outside its mature...
Still, Zuckerberg’s role at Facebook is becoming more of a lightning rod for both activist shareholders and regulators. Environmental, social and governance investors are turning against the company because the recent scandal — centered on teen m...
got data on 50m Facebook users indubious, possibly illegal, ways has lit a firestorm (see article). Mr Zuckerberg took five days to reply and, when he did, he conceded that Facebook had let its users down in the past but seemed not to have grasped that its business faces a...
Facebook faces mounting scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators concerned about its handling user data and how a Russian operation with ties to the Kremlin exploited the platform to foment discord in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election. ...
Facial recognition technology has, in general, come under increased scrutiny from regulators and civil liberties advocates,particularly amid concernabout police using it to track people’s movements and widespread reports that it’s often more inaccurate in recognizing faces of people of color compared ...
Libra is scheduled to launch within the next six to 12 months. Many privacy questions remain unanswered, though, adding to the regulatory concerns Facebook already faces. Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, ...
Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp and has now started to rebrand its popular applications to‘Instagram from Facebook’ and ‘WhatsApp from Facebook’. The move comes as Facebook faces scrutiny from regulators over privacy issues and with whom Facebook shares user information. This is a big...
Regulators in Australia, Europe and the U.S. took notice. Facebook now faces the prospect of not only billions of dollars in additional fines, but also new restrictions around the world. Laws enacted in Australia in April could lead to the imprisonment of social media executives if their plat...
The flaw that caused the leak of personal data of more than 533 million users over the weekend no longer exists; however, the social media giant still faces an investigation by EU regulators.