WhatsApp and Facebook, fined 600000 euros in Spain for sharing personal data
WhatsApp has responded to the fine alleging that “it is deeply concerned about the privacy of users, we collect very little data, and each message is encrypted end-to-end, as we have repeatedly clarified during the last year, we do not share or share data that the Authority Spanish Data Protection …
Twitter Sleuths Identify Mystery Whale Scientist, Unnamed African American Woman in 1971 …
Twitter loves a good mystery, and on March 9, illustrator Candace Jean Andersen posted one that quickly went viral. Andersen shared a photo she had found from the 1971 International Conference on the Biology of Whales, which held in June in Shenandoa National Park, Virginia. The conference's … Read More
2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball: No. 16 UMBC stuns No. 1 Virginia, Twitter reacts
It was bound to happen. But nobody, maybe except for the University of Maryland-Baltimore Count fans, predicted that March 16, 2018 would be the day NCAA Division 1 Men's College Basketball history would be made. If you haven't looked at your bracket yet, you should. You may have just lost …
Kyle Walker Leads Twitter Reaction to Liverpool and Manchester City’s Champions League Clash
Kyle Walker Leads Twitter Reaction to Liverpool and Manchester City's Champions League Clash … only side to beat Manchester City in the Premier League this season and, d espite the Citizens fine form throughout the campaign, Liverpool supporters on Twitter remain confident ahead of the clash . Read More
Cambridge Analytica suspended from Facebook amid claims it harvested 50 million profiles
A data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team has been suspended from Facebook amid claims it harvested 50 million profiles from the social media site. Cambridge Analytica got information from an academic who was asking Facebook users to fill out surveys via an app as it … Read …
Massachusetts says to probe Facebook, Cambridge Analytica
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Massachusetts attorney general said on Saturday her office was launching an investigation after reports that Cambridge Analytica had harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump's … Read More
The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy
The revelations in our lead story today are shocking not just because they reveal the extent to which Facebook's advertising system was exploited for political purposes in the 2016 election, but also because they demonstrate the company's inability to comprehend the responsibilities that accompany its … Read More
Media told to use social media to promote migration issues
The call was made by a Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication of the University for Professional Studies (UPSA), Mr Charles Nii Ayiku Ayiku, during a three-day training workshop for some selected journalists and media practitioners at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre in Accra. Read More
‘Scandal’ Wraps Production Of Series Finale In A Blaze Of Social-Media Glory
The finale of the show's seventh and final series will air on April 19. Fans, anointed as “gladiators” early in the show's breakout first season, responded with equal parts sadness, nostalgia and excitement for the finale. Cast members also took part in the social sendoff. Kerry Washington, who plays Olivia … …
Preserving the Earth and a tulip farming legacy with social media
The spectacular colour of Tasmania's Table Cape Tulip Farm sits on top an ancient volcanic larval flow jutting into Bass Strait. "There were about 13 volcanic extrusions across the North West coast about 13 million years ago, we've got some beautiful rich volcanic soil here that's high in iron …we've …