Facebook removes exposed user records stored on AWS servers
Facebook has taken down the data bases containing user data from AWS' cloud servers after a report from UpGuard pointed to millions of exposed records.
Facebook has taken down the data bases containing user data from AWS' cloud servers after a report from UpGuard pointed to millions of exposed records.
The Australian Federal Government has revised the Privacy Act penalties that could see technology companies with multi-million-dollar fines if breaching privacy laws.
Facebook has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees.
Australia’s major telcos have temporarily blocked a number of sites hosting footage of Friday’s terror attack in Christchurch.
The NBN Co, NAB and cinema chain Hoyts are among the local companies using Facebook’s Workplace service.
Intel is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year, as revealed during CES in Las Vegas.
Facebook said it did not give companies access to personal data of users without their permission, in response to a The New York Times report.
Technology giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo were granted special access to Facebook users' data according to The New York Times.
Australia's competition watchdog has recommended a new regulatory body be set up to monitor tech giants Facebook and Google.
Australia's parliament has passed a bill to force tech firms such as Google, Facebook and Apple to give police access to encrypted data.
Facebook gave some companies, including Netflix and Airbnb, preferential access to user data in 2015 as it limited services for most others.
Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, according to the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said customer data was being "weaponised with military efficiency" by companies to increase profit.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to praise new GDPR privacy rules and voice support for strong laws in Europe and the US.
As the dust settles on news that cyber attackers stole data from 29 million accounts, Facebook is rumoured to be buying a cyber security firm.
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