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  Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data

  Technology | November 03, 2021 9:26 IST

  As part of this change, people who have opted for our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them."Face Recognition was introduced by Facebook in the year 2010. 

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  Facebook to digitally mentor 5,000 young tribal women in India

  Technology | October 16, 2019 17:48 IST

  Facebook's Going Online as Leaders (GOAL) connects underprivileged young women from tribal areas with senior expert mentors in the areas of business, fashion and arts to learn digital and life skills

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  Facebook to pay Android users in India and the US to monitor their phone usage

  Technology | June 12, 2019 18:21 IST

  Facebook decides to pay Android users in India and the US just to monitor how they use their phones, by launching a new app called Study available on Google's Playstore, for users aged 18 and above.

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  Facebook shelves a feature intended to encourage civil political discourse

  Technology | December 24, 2018 19:50 IST

  Fearing a conservative backlash, Facebook has shelved a feature that was intended to encourage more civil discussion among users of opposing political beliefs.

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  Facebook may be perpetuating existing social inequalities: Study

  Technology | July 25, 2018 17:35 IST

  The findings showed that people who had looked for work within the last four weeks were more likely to have deactivated their Facebook accounts -- eliminating a potential resource in their job search

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  Facebook will now tell how much time you spend on social media website

  Technology | June 23, 2018 13:32 IST

  The new feature would offer users the option to set a daily time limit as well as a link to manage their Facebook notifications.

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  Facebook admits it tracks users' mouse movement as well as 'online and offline actions'

  Internet | June 13, 2018 16:15 IST

  Facebook in a 225-page document admitted that it collects information from and about computers, phones and connected devices which even includes mouse and various other services.

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  Mark Zuckerberg held his first Facebook Live Q&A session: 10 things the CEO revealed

  June 15, 2016 13:32 IST

  New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg held his first midnight QnA on Facebook LIVE. The one-hour session saw a handful of 111,000 people tuned in and Zuckerberg answered all their questions ranging from his life, his mission

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  Your Facebook activity reveals your personality traits to strangers

  September 12, 2014 12:59 IST

  New Delhi: A new research has revealed that the personality traits of strangers can be detected by looking at their facebook activity.The researcher from the University of Kansas found that extroversion was the easiest personality