Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram unveiled what was billed as a major overhaul of its safety features for children on Tuesday — a move that online watchdogs quickly attacked as an effort to avoid an impending congressional crackdown on the social media giant. Instagram said it will automatically put users under the age of 18 on “teen … Read more
Embattled Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has reportedly agreed to hand over the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who use his encrypted messaging app to government authorities who make valid legal requests. Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who was arrested in France last month and hit with a slew of charges, including facilitating the spread … Read more
TikTok faced pointed questions from a US appeals court on Monday as the company tries to block a law that would force China-based ByteDance to sell the video-sharing app by January. 19 or face an outright ban. A lawyer for TikTok argued before a three-judge panel that the law, signed by President Joe Biden in … Read more
If you feel like you’re getting slapped with extra card fees more and more – you’re not imagining it. As businesses face rising costs, a growing number are charging their customers an extra fee when they pay by card to cover the cost of processing that transaction. And while it may seem like an insignificant … Read more
Snapchat reserves the right to place photos of its users’ faces in ads as part of the terms of service for its My Selfie tool, which allows people and their friends to create AI-generated images that are trained on selfies theirs. “My Selfie is used to power generative AI, Cameos, and other Snapchat experiences that … Read more
Social media companies collect, share and process vast amounts of information about their users with little transparency or control, including how it is used by systems that incorporate artificial intelligence, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Thursday. The report analyzed how Meta Platforms, ByteDance’s TikTok, Amazon’s gaming platform Twitch and others manage … Read more