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Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

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Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million ($263 million) for a 2018 data breach that exposed the personal data of millions, including 3 million users in the EU. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed the penalty, citing violations of GDPR privacy regulations, marking yet another significant […]

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Facebook to Reward Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets.

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Facebook now Meta has announced plans to expand its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping vulnerabilities across its platforms as well as include reports of scraping data sets that are available online. “We know that automated activity designed to scrape people’s public and private data targets every website or service,” said

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Facebook Stops Facial Recognition and Deletes Billions of Records

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Meta, facebook’s newly rebranded parent company on Tuesday announced plans to stop its decade-old “Face Recognition” system and would also delete more than a billion users’ facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its products. This shutdown would take effect over the coming weeks and

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