Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Facebook Reportedly Collects Your Data Even If Your Account is Deactivated

One of the things that a lot of people have started to realize about platforms like Facebook is that they really don’t seem to care all that much about the kind of privacy that you would ideally want for the personal information that you would inevitably share on them. Facebook is a particularly...

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Instagram Tests Silent Messages To Its Direct Groups, And The Ability To Filter What Content Is Viewed On Users Home Page

Instagram has added a couple of new features to its interface, the first circling around what content is viewed on one's homepage, and the second allowing users to send silent messages into Direct groups. First of all, however, there's been a new update that's both small and still quite large....

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Monday, November 1, 2021

A Study Reveals That Customers Of Banks, Mobile Networks, And Retail Stores Are Increasingly Holding Them Accountable For Scams Being Conducted

A recent survey reveals that half of all consumers across banks, retail stores, and mobile networks actively place them blame on such institutions and product developers for scam messages. Scams and cyber crimes are concepts that no netizen is even slightly unfamiliar with. It's rather easy to see...

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Facebook's metaverse can be toxic for human society, says Eric Schmidt, reflecting disquietude of artificial intelligence security

Eric Schmidt, the ex-Google CEO, lets out that Facebook's metaverse is not certainly promising. He articulates his doubts and fears regarding the uncertainty of artificial intelligence technology, for humans. Eric Schmidt, in his talk with The New York Times, on Saturday, enunciated his opinions...

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Apple's Privacy Measures Have Led To An Approximate USD $10 Billion Loss For Social Media Platforms As A Whole

Apple's App Tracking/Transparency features have reportedly cost social media platforms across the board a total of USD $9.85 billion in revenue, as per FT. Tracking and Transparency has been a hot topic in tech circles ever since it's introduction to the iOS 14 back in 2020. The features, for...

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How Much Influence do Influencers Truly Have?

Influencers are an often mysterious aspect of internet culture as well as the global economy that many struggle to fully understand. It is pretty clear that using an influencer in your advertising is the sort of thing that can end up benefiting you at the very least to a certain extent, but how...

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TikTok Is Increasing The Caption Character Limit To 300, And Testing A New Tip Feature For Users To Support Their Favorite Creators With

TikTok's getting in a couple of new creator oriented features into the mix, adding a Tips feature to its videos and increasing the character limit of the caption box to three hundred. TikToks may have started out as nothing much more complicated than fun dance trends or kids lip syncing to their...

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