Facebook-owned instant messaging giant WhatsApp will be compliant with data localisation norms over the next two months, post which it can roll out its much-delayed payments service, says the National Payments Corporation.
According to the charge sheet, the woman and the IPS officer became friends on Facebook and within a few months of chatting and video calls, the IPS officer met her in Delhi on January 27.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern over issues like trolling, character assassination, spreading lies and fake news on social media. Technology has taken a dangerous turn, the top court observed and asked the Centre to apprise it within three weeks about the time-frame needed to come up with guidelines to curb misuse of social media in the country.
Facebook is ready to bring new interactive AR-based advertisement formats on in platforms
The local Menlo Park Police reported in a statement that at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, they received a call reporting an adult man had jumped off the fourth floor of a building on Jefferson Drive, reports Efe news.
In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported.
The state has sought the top court modify its order to continue the hearing in the High Court.
On Sunday, municipal and regional elections were held across Russia, with a total of 22 administrative centres electing city parliaments, and three regional capitals electing heads of municipalities, Sputnik news agency reported.
If you are applying for a US visa including H1-B worker visa, you will now have to furnish all your social media accounts. The US Department of Homeland Security has initiated a process of obtaining social media identification (user name or handle).
Facebook has rolled out the services of Facebook Dating for its users in the US, looks to enter the European market by next year
Phone numbers of as many as 400 million Facebook users have been leaked, news agency AFP quoted the US media as saying. According to technology news site TechCruch, an exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases - including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain.
People who are new to Facebook or who previously had the "Tag Suggestions" setting will have the face recognition setting by default and will receive information about how it works.
Facebook confirmed, "that it's considering a test that would hide like counts, but that the test hasn't started running yet."
The police has registered a case under relevant sections of the IT Act at the Rajouri police station and started investigations against the five.
Facebook is not doing enough to safeguard children on its Messenger Kids app and their privacy is at risk, US Democratic Senators have stressed.
The police have arrested a person from Nandwal village for posting derogatory remarks about Lord Krishna on his Facebook page, officials said on Wednesday.
The accused had also messaged some prominent cricketers from the fake account and asked for their phone numbers, he said.
Mohammad Zaid Rashid (20), admitted at the university's off-campus centre in Bihar’s Kishanganj this year, was here when he downloaded a picture from the protests over the scrapping of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir.
A girl was held for defaming her classmate through fake Facebook posts in Jammu district, a police official said on Thursday. "A complaint was received from a girl that a fake Facebook profile has been made and vulgar and defamatory messages are being posted on it," an officer said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Facebook Inc's plea seeking transfer of cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar, pending in different high courts to the apex court. The top court agreed to hear the Facebook plea and sought responses of Centre and the social media platforms by September 13.
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