Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 39In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Bill Goodwin, investigations editor and Sebastian Klovig Skelton, reporter, Computer Weekly to discuss their stories about… Dec 03 19December 03, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
How Facebook’s ‘Switcheroo’ plan concealed scheme to kill popular appsLeaked documents reveal how Facebook used and abused app developers, cut off data to competitors, gave privileged access to its friends and used privacy as a cover story A congressional committee investigating anti-competitive behaviour in digital… Nov 06 19November 06, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public todayCongressional lawmakers are analysing thousands of pages of leaked Facebook documents, containing high-level internal conversations between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the technology firm’s most senior staff, as antitrust investigations against Facebook… Nov 06 19November 06, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal dataBy Bill Goodwin and Sebastian Klovig Skelton Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected laughs when he joked about the company’s poor record on protecting the privacy of its customers at its annual developer conference. “Now look, I get that a lot of… Jul 01 19July 01, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
Facebook leaks: Zuckerberg turned data into dollars in ruthless battle with competitorsFacebook’s CEO ruthlessly exploited personal data shared by its users to turn Facebook into the biggest social network, but internal documents show that privacy appeared to be an afterthought for executives Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg led… Apr 18 19April 18, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
Facebook takes extraordinary legal steps to contain document leakFacebook is taking extraordinary legal measures in an attempt to contain further leaks of highly confidential internal documents provided to a US court that have come into the possession of international media organisations, including Computer… Apr 15 19April 15, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com
Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection lawBy Bill Goodwin, Duncan Campbell & Sebastian Klovig Skelton Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation Sheryl… Mar 02 19March 02, 2019Article at ComputerWeekly.com