Facebook let Netflix see user DMs to help them tailor content as part of a close collaboration between the two tech giants, new court documents claims

Facebook's parent company Meta allegedly allowed Netflix to peer at its user DMs 'for nearly a decade' to help the streaming giant better tailor content for its own users, an explosive lawsuit has ... Read More

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a ... Read More

Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. The guidance, which was confirmed incoming ... Read More

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

It needed more data to train the next version of its technology — lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube ... Read More

Tech giants are spending more on AI amid slow returns, and that's spooking investors

Meta said that it would be spending billions of dollars more on its AI efforts, raising expenditure forecasts in this area from $30 - 37 billion ... Read More

Are WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Down? Users Report Issues

By 3 p.m., WhatsApp issue reports in the U.S. had dropped to just over 2,000. Users of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, experienced outages on Wednesday afternoon. Read More

Roku Says Hackers Gained Access to 576,000 Accounts in Latest Data-Breach Incident

Roku said hackers gained unauthorized access ... s second data-breach incident this year, prompting the streaming-hardware maker to institute additional security measures for users. Read More

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI

To obtain that data, tech companies including ... restaurant reviews on Google Maps and other online material for more of its AI products. Read More

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI

The race to lead AI has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies ... restaurant reviews on Google Maps and other online ... Read More

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI

To obtain that data, tech ... product is just something that we currently aren’t able to deliver,” one engineer said. While Meta operates giant social networks, it didn’t have troves of user posts at ... Read More