What Facebook shared, with whom.. indianexpress.com

It has emerged that Facebook struck deals to allow over 60 smartphone makers ‘deep access’ to data on users and their friends, sometimes without their consent. How does it affect you, and what happens now?

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Facebook announces new ‘Dating’ feature: Here’s how it will work.. indianexpress.com

Facebook's 'Dating' feature will be built inside the Facebook app and help people build "meaningful relationships". Here's how it will work.

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An interesting cartoon on Mark Zuckerberg appearing before the congress to answer the questions regarding Data breach in Facebook..

Will do everything to protect integrity of elections in India, says Zuckerberg.. indianexpress.com

As Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, he promised that the social network will take care of activities during elections in India.

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Facebook data-breach: Mark Zuckerberg heads to Congress to testify.. indianexpress.com

Here are five questions that could shed more light on Facebook's privacy practices and the degree to which it is really sorry about playing fast and loose with user data — or just because its practices have drawn the spotlight.

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Upcoming elections in India major focus for Facebook: Mark Zuckeberg.. dnaindia.com

Upcoming elections in India major focus for Facebook: Mark Zuckeberg -  Facebook has deployed technology tools like artificial intelligence and thousands of people to work on security as the company's "major focus" this year is to protect the integrity of upcoming elections in several countries, including India, on its platform, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Indian Facebook users will not get stronger privacy protections available to EU users... indiatoday.in

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook would like to make the privacy protections put in place by the European General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, law in spirit but would make exceptions.

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The Bosworth's Facebook Internal Memo Published by Buzzfeed:

Andrew Bosworth
June 18, 2016


The Ugly

We talk about the good and the bad of our work often. I want to talk about the ugly.

We connect people.

That can be good if they make it positive. Maybe someone finds love. Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

So we connect more people

That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

And still we connect people.

The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.

That isn’t something we are doing for ourselves. Or for our stock price (ha!). It is literally just what we do. We connect people. Period.

That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it.

The natural state of the world is not connected. It is not unified. It is fragmented by borders, languages, and increasingly by different products. The best products don’t win. The ones everyone use win.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this. Most of us have the luxury of working in the warm glow of building products consumers love. But make no mistake, growth tactics are how we got here. If you joined the company because it is doing great work, that’s why we get to do that great work. We do have great products but we still wouldn’t be half our size without pushing the envelope on growth. Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing.

In almost all of our work, we have to answer hard questions about what we believe. We have to justify the metrics and make sure they aren’t losing out on a bigger picture. But connecting people. That’s our imperative. Because that’s what we do. We connect people.

Facebook ends partnerships with data brokers who help advertisers target people.. hindustantimes.com

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Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones arstechnica.com

Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.

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