Facebook pay a 1.2 billion Euro fine

The information was presented at the European Stroke Organisation Conference Earlier this year, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued a binding dispute resolution decision regarding Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE), the company behind Facebook. The Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA) conducted an inquiry into Facebook’s service and…

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Meta/Facebook announcement shows Aussie data out of “our” control

The former Head of Information Warfare for Australian Defence, shows the value of data is ‘outside of our control’. This Meta/facebook announcement that it will no longer have face recognition, but continue with data collection, comes on the heels of a major Europol operation in Switzerland and Ukraine, conducted in…

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Social media outage caused global disruption

Facebook disruption hurt Instagram and WhatsApp business users. Facebook has issued an apology for a global outage on the 4th of October 2021, that caused disruption to all the people and businesses around the world who depend on the social media site.  Santosh Janardhan VP Infrastructure at Facebook issued the statement offering apologies for “the…

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Facebook claims personal data exposed through scraping

Refutes claims 530 million users’ social media pages accessed through hacking. Social media giant, Facebook has released a statement rebutting claims personal user data was accessed through hacking. According to Mike Clark product management director at Facebook, on April 3 Business Insider published a story saying that information from more…

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Sunseap and Facebook to support data centre operations in Singapore

To help Facebook reach sustainability goals in the region. One of Singapore’s solar energy company, Sunseap Group will supply Facebook with renewable energy to support the tech company’s operations in Singapore. This will include one of Facebook’s first custom-built data centre in Asia. The transaction with Sunseap will help Facebook—one…

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India panel proposes new regulator for non-personal data: draft report

There’s need for a regulator or authority for data business. By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India should set up a data regulator and require companies to disclose how they collect and store data devoid of personal details or which has been anonymised, a panel tasked to draw up…

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US tech giants face hard choices under Hong Kong’s new security law

Companies are now in the cross hairs of a national security law that gives China authority to demand that they turn over user data. By Brenda Goh and Pei Li SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – U.S. tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong’s security law will reshape their businesses,…

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NTU Singapore and Facebook work together to develop local data centre talent

Combining  NTU’s tech expertise with Facebook’s data centre expertise. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Facebook have joined together  launch a pilot program to develop local talent in the data centre sector in Singapore, one of the major data investment hubs in the region. The newly developed nine-month pilot program by…

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