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PanARMENIAN.Net - One of Facebook’s biggest selling points to advertisers is that you can use the company’s vast data trove to target users based on almost any personal characteristic.But the wide scope of Facebook’s targeting capabilities was revealed on Thursday, September 14 when ProPublica discovered that you could target people
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Another privacy-related fine for Facebook in Europe: The Spanish data protection regulator has issued a €1.2M (~$1.4M) fine against the social media behemoth for a series of violations regarding its data-harvesting activities, TechCrunch says.Spain’s AEPD said an investigation into how Facebook collects, stores and uses data for advertising
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PHUKET: A Phuket woman is reportedly safe after widespread alarm was raised over a video clip she shared on Facebook last week announcing her intention to end her life.The woman, whose name her family has asked to withhold, said she was hurt by her boyfriend and no longer wished to
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Police in Nakhon Ratchasima province are hunting for two men who they believed have collaborated with a molester who used social media to lure teenage girls into sex with him.The molester who used his name as “Panda” on Facebook was arrested on Thusday (July 6) following complaints from parents of
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Thailand’s military government on Tuesday toned down threats to block online access to Facebook, saying the social networking giant has cooperated in removing thousands of website links to content deemed as violating the nation’s strict royal defamation law.Last week Thai broadcast regulators gave Facebook a Tuesday deadline to take down
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook has come under fire after leaked documents revealed the social media site has been targeting potentially vulnerable children, The Independent reports.The allegations suggest the company is gathering information on young people who “need a confidence boost” to facilitate predatory advertising practices.Confidential documents obtained by The Australian reportedly
Read More ROYAL THAI POLICE yesterday defended their response to a horrific video clip of a father murdering his baby daughter that remained on Facebook Live for almost 24 hours before it was removed.Police Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen, deputy national police spokesman, said the Technology Crime Suppression Division alerted the Ministry of Digital
Read More PHUKET: A man hanged his 11-month-old daughter then himself in Sakoo, south of Phuket International Airport, late yesterday afternoon (April 24) in a video broadcast live on Facebook in what police believe was an act of jealousy.The alarm was raised by Jiranuch “Bew” Trirat, 21, who called police at 6:30pm
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