Facebook comes with new rules ahead of 2020 US election fears

By Europe Times August 29, 2019 No comment

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The social media giant, Facebook tightens the rules ahead of the next US presidential election, reports BBC. The company has introduced new political advertising rules, in a bid to halt exploitation in the US elections. Now, for the political advertisers, to obtain a “confirmed organisation” label, they have to verify their identity. This is marked […]

Job-search tool of Google being investigated by EU

By Europe Times August 28, 2019 No comment

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The job search tool of Google is being investigated by the European Union as they got several claims, saying the competitors has been driven out of the market. Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner has raised a question whether it was fair the Google had “such control over the success or failure” of its rivals. […]

Flouting of privacy law using facial recognition – School fined in Sweden

By Europe Times August 28, 2019 No comment

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A school in Sweden, which used facial recognition for tracking student’s attendance has been fined 200,000 Swedish Krona (£16,800, $20,700) by the Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA). The fine has been issued on the school for for flouting a privacy law. The school used a trial session which included 22 high school students being detected […]

Facebook asked to close down the groups that seeks fake Amazon reviews

By Europe Times August 6, 2019 No comment

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The tech giant Facebook is facing a problem in closing down the groups on its site where fake Amazon reviews are sold, claims ‘Which?’ the consumer group. Facebook, in June was urged by CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) to tackle sale of fake reviews. Certain uncovered active groups are recruiting people to write fake testimonies, […]

Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel in fly-board

By Europe Times August 5, 2019 No comment

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Franky Zapata (40), French inventor and creator of Flyboard and Flyboard Air has succesfully completed his attempt to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered fly-board. Zapata, who started his flying from Sangatte, near Calais, at 06:17 GMT on Sunday had landed in St Margaret’s Bay in Dover. A kerosene-filled backpack has been used in […]

Libra – The cryptocurrency of Facebook attacked at Senate hearing

By Europe Times July 17, 2019 No comment

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Facebook’s cryptocurrency – Libra will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees, has come under further attack at a US hearing. The politicians said that the company is “delusional” and non-trusted. They said that they do not trust Facebook to operate a global cryptocurrency. Facebook executive David Marcus has […]

Mark Zuckerberg reveals changes in response to criticism

By Europe Times May 1, 2019 No comment

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had revealed some changes to the portfolio of FB’s social platforms. The changes includes Instagram and WhatsApp also. Facebook had been facing criticisms over the leakage of user’s privacy issues. The new designs and features for its apps are providing a direct solution for this widespread privacy criticisms. Zuckerberg said that […]

Bracelet to test drinks for date-rape drug developed by German Inventors

By Europe Times April 12, 2019 No comment

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The German inventors have developed a bracelet for reducing the terrible practice of drink spiking. The drink spiking, which intents in assaulting, robbery or sexual assault have always been a fear of many clubbers. This bracelet needs just one drop of liquid to be applied on it to identify the presence of “date rape drugs”. […]

Greece witnessed the birth of a ‘Triple parented’ baby !

By Europe Times April 11, 2019 No comment

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‘Three-person’ baby boy was born in Greece on Tuesday. The baby boy had a born weight of 2.9kg (6lbs). Doctors said that the mother and baby are in good health condition. This magical birth was actually an experimental result, carried out in order to overcome a woman’s infertility, by the fertility doctors in Greece and […]

Be Alert.., the iPhone users !! A powerful spyware app is targeting you !

By Europe Times April 9, 2019 No comment

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A powerful surveillance app, which was first designed for Android is now targeting the iPhone users, says techcrunch. This spy app, dubbed ‘Exodus’ was discovered by the research team at mobile security firm Lookout. They said that its developer abused their Apple-issued enterprise certificates to bypass the tech giant’s app store to infect unsuspecting