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Italy Puts Age Block On TikTok Following Death Of 10-Year-Old Girl
Italy’s data protection authority said Friday it was acting with “urgency” following the death of a 10-year-old girl in Sicily, who died while participating in a so-called “blackout” challenge.
Sheryl Sandberg Slammed For Saying Capitol Riot Was Not 'Largely' Planned On Facebook
A misinformation watchdog identified at least 70 "Stop the Steal" groups that were active on the platform before Facebook took action Monday.
Dutch Authorities: Trump's Twitter Was Hacked By Man Who Guessed 'maga2020!' Password
It only took the hacker five tries to guess the correct password, and he was kind enough to tell Donald Trump's team to activate two-factor authentication afterward.
WhatsApp's new 'privacy' policy is a gift to other messaging apps
When WhatsApp made clear that it planned to share a lot more information with parent company Facebook, including sensitive data such as phone number, device particulars and location, some users were not happy. But WhatsApp didn't just make those changes. It included them in a new privacy policy and asked users to agree or not.TechCrunch noted that users who don't agree will soon become non-users."In an email to one of its merchant partners, …Facebook-owned WhatsApp said it will 'slowly ask' such users to comply with the new terms 'in order to have full functionality of WhatsApp' starting May 15," TechCrunch reported. "If they still don’t accept the terms, 'for a short time (later defined as "a few weeks"), these users will be able to receive calls and notifications, but will not be able to read or send messages from the app. WhatsApp’s policy for inactive users states that accounts are 'generally deleted after 120 days of inactivity.'"To read this article in full, please click here
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