Legal experts on data processing and transparency rights are increasingly in the news to call out Facebook as a criminal business model (gathering other people’s data and using it without real consent) Today’s GDPR complaints from BEUC argue that Meta’s pay-or-consent model breaches data protection principles of the law, including the principles of purpose limitation, … Continue reading Facebook Charged With “Massive Illegal Data Processing Ops” →

We’ve known since forever that Facebook was created by a guy who set out to hurt young women. Quick recap: His time at Harvard was spent stealing personal data from female students to create a website where he could direct hate at them. After Harvard’s women of color filed a formal complaint, he was investigated … Continue reading Facebook Charged in Meta Conspiracy to Cause Psychological Damage to Children →

A recently filed lawsuit exposes the Facebook profit model, once again, this time in Ethiopia. Amare’s son, researcher Abrham Amare, appealed to Facebook to have the posts removed but heard nothing back for weeks. Eight days after his father’s murder, Abrham received a response from Facebook: One of the posts targeting his father, shared by … Continue reading Facebook Security Failures Fueled Hate-Speech That Exacerbated Violence and Ethiopian Civil War →

Here’s the crux of the story. Voxer founder, Tom Katis, started developing the patents in question in 2006 as a way to solve battlefield communications problems he encountered while serving a Special Forces Communications Sergeant in Afghanistan. Katis and the Voxer team developed technology that enabled the transmission of live voice and video communications and … Continue reading Facebook Stole U.S. Veteran’s Ideas and Tried to Kill His Business →