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Facebook pays £500,000 fine in the UK over Cambridge Analytica issues

Wake Up Call 0 Facebook, google analytics 9:36 AM

Facebook pays £500,000 fine in the UK over Cambridge Analytica issues

Just 500 000 give me a break?!! The Information Commissioner’s Office has announced that Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of £500,000 aft...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donates $992 Million to Charity Funding Planned Parenthood

TheWake UpCall 2 Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Planned Parenthood 4:20 PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donates $992 Million to Charity Funding Planned Parenthood

Philanthropy magazine released an article titled “A Look at the 50 Most Generous Donors of 2013.” Topping the list was Facebook CEO and co...

Facebook accused of tracking all users even if they delete accounts

TheWake UpCall 0 Facebook 12:30 AM

Facebook accused of tracking all users even if they delete accounts

A new report claims that Facebook secretly installs tracking cookies on users’ computers, allowing them to follow users around the internet ...

British army targets Facebook with new 77th Brigade battalion

TheWake UpCall 0 British, Facebook 11:47 AM

British army targets Facebook with new 77th Brigade battalion

The British army is creating a new battalion of online soldiers in the form of the 77th Brigade. Hundreds of recruits will make up the divi...

HOW MANY OF YOUR FACEBOOK ‘FRIENDS’ ARE UNDERCOVER FEDS?

TheWake UpCall 0 Facebook 11:05 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We all get friend requests from people we don’t know on Facebook and those of us that are smart don’t accept those requests.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being an owner of several large pages on Facebook as well as being affiliated with a coalition of other pages, all of which are right-wing leaning anti Obama pages I have received countless messages and requests from anonymous people which I have deemed to be questionable to say the least.</span></div>
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HOW MANY OF YOUR FACEBOOK ‘FRIENDS’ ARE UNDERCOVER FEDS?

We all get friend requests from people we don’t know on Facebook and those of us that are smart don’t accept those requests. Being an ow...

ISRAEL TO ARREST ANYONE FOR POSTING CONTENT DEEMED ‘ANTI-ISRAEL’ ON FACEBOOK

TheWake UpCall 3 Facebook, Israel 4:14 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many years – Israel has been monitoring the social media accounts of pro-Palestinian activists. The Israeli government has a long track record of arresting Palestinians indiscriminately where they can and do detain every day Palestinian citizens in military prisons for up to 6 months without charge. But now they’re actually telling activists they will be arrested for posting content deemed to be “anti-Israel.”</span></span><br>
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ISRAEL TO ARREST ANYONE FOR POSTING CONTENT DEEMED ‘ANTI-ISRAEL’ ON FACEBOOK

For many years – Israel has been monitoring the social media accounts of pro-Palestinian activists. The Israeli government has a long track...

Facebook Crosses The Line With New Facebook Messenger App

TheWake UpCall 1 Facebook, Facebook Messenger 10:51 AM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, this is VERY important to read and understand. I’m doing my best to look out for all the Facebook Users who aren’t as tech savvy as their kids or friends. I’m trying to help explain what’s happening because if I don’t…nobody else will!<br><br>If you’re anything like your neighbor…you probably use Facebook on your phone WAY more than you use it on a computer. You’ve been sending messages from the Facebook app and it probably always asks you if you want to install the Facebook Messenger App.</span><div>
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Facebook Crosses The Line With New Facebook Messenger App

First, this is VERY important to read and understand. I’m doing my best to look out for all the Facebook Users who aren’t as tech savvy as t...

In 2015 Facebook Will Drop a “Bombshell”

TheWake UpCall 1 Facebook 4:57 PM

In 2015 Facebook Will Drop a “Bombshell”

Major news is about to be released from the infamous privacy stealing company known as Facebook. All users will be asked around January 1st...

David Cameron: Google, Facebook and Twitter have duty to take down extremist material

TheWake UpCall 0 David Cameron, Facebook, google 9:54 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook, Google, Twitter and other technology giants must “live up to their social responsibilities” and do more to take down extremist material from the internet, David Cameron has suggested.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Cameron said that the internet cannot remain an “ungoverned space” and that technology companies must be “more proactive” in helping authorities remove “harmful” material.</span></div>
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David Cameron: Google, Facebook and Twitter have duty to take down extremist material

Facebook, Google, Twitter and other technology giants must “live up to their social responsibilities” and do more to take down extremist...

Snowden Slams Dropbox, Facebook As Threats To Privacy

TheWake UpCall 7 Dropbox, Facebook, Snowden 5:06 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Dropbox, Facebook and Google are a few of the biggest threats to individuals’ privacy, Edward Snowden warned at a forum this weekend.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Advising consumers to only use encrypted services that promise to not share data with the government or other corporations, the whistleblower gave some quick tips on how to protect personal data and ensure privacy. </span><br>
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Snowden Slams Dropbox, Facebook As Threats To Privacy

Dropbox, Facebook and Google are a few of the biggest threats to individuals’ privacy, Edward Snowden warned at a forum this weekend. ...

Facebook's New 'DeepFace' Program

TheWake UpCall 0 Facebook 6:00 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook owns <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5841667/facebook-photo-library-dwarfs-everything-else-in-the-planet">the world's largest photo library</a>, and it now has the technology to match almost all the faces within it. Yes, even the ones you don't tag.</span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/publications/546316888800776/">announced last week</a> that it has developed a program called "DeepFace," which researchers say can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25 percent accuracy.</span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>According to Facebook, humans put to the same test answer correctly 97.53 percent of the time -- only a quarter of a percent better than Facebook's software.</span><br> <script type="text/javascript">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>The takeaway: Facebook has essentially caught up to humans when it comes to remembering a face. The program was developed by three in-house Facebook researchers and a professor at Tel Aviv University.<br><br><br>As an example, the developers show in a paper on the program that DeepFace can successfully recognize that this is Academy Award winner Sylvester Stallone.<br><br><br><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1684563/thumbs/o-FACEBOOK-FACIAL-RECOGNITION-570.jpg"></span><br>
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Facebook's New 'DeepFace' Program

Facebook owns the world's largest photo library , and it now has the technology to match almost all the faces within it. Yes, even the o...

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