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Consumer Groups: Facebook’s Facial Recognition Violates Privacy Rights

Facebook violates its users' privacy rights through the use of its facial recognition software, according to consumer groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Their complaint to the federal government focuses...

Chinese space lab burns up in the atmosphere

A defunct Chinese space lab met its expected end early Monday morning as its remaining fragments plunged into the South Pacific. China's Manned Space Engineering Office said the Tiangong-1 spacecraft “mostly” burned...

New dating app matches users based on their DNA

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Love from a cheek swab? That's what founders of a new dating app are promising. There always seems to be another dating app popping up with promises of...

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Apologizes for ‘Breach of Trust’ in Disclosure of Users’ Data

Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg apologized Sunday in full-page ads in nine major British and U.S. newspapers for the massive "breach of trust" at the social media giant...

New Pagasa mobile app to benefit farmers, fisherfolk

MANILA -- A new free mobile phone app open up and give farmers and fisherfolk nationwide access to latest weather and climate information from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration...

Facebook founder: We made a mistake in trying to protect user data

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a rare television interview Wednesday that Facebook clearly made a mistake in its part in an illegal data collection scandal. “This was a major breach of...

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