Germany opens its inquiry into Facebook’s facial recognition software
Submitted by Avinash Tripathi on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 14:22
An inquiry set up by the hamburg data protection agency, Germany, has decided to reopen its Facebook's facil recognition inquiry. The inquiry centers on Facebook's Photo Tag Suggest feature that analyses uploaded photos to the social networking site, automatically matching faces to the sites members using facial recognition software. The probe was initially suspended in June.
U.S. Government tops the list requesting user information: Twitter
Submitted by Sumit Yayavar on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 13:55
Disclosing the number of demands Twitter receives from governments around the world for user information, it released its first Transparency Report. Expectantly, U. S. government agencies filed the most requests and this implied to Google as well.
Sheryl Sandberg: New Facebook Board member
Submitted by Sumit Yayavar on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 02:16Sheryl Sandberg will be idolized by women everywhere, inspiring and telling them that they can have it all. Adding another feat to her resume being a board member at Facebook Inc.
Facebook Launches Its App Store
Submitted by Neelesh Raghuwanshi on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 13:06
As per recent reports, it has been revealed that Facebook has launched an app store, following its old participle of making profit, despite being risky. It has been reported that the app store opened is similar to Apple's iPhone software supermarket.
It has been recovered that the move was implemented after the social site giant failed to gather money from adverts on mobiles.
No Facebook Paper Stock Facility for Collectors
Submitted by Neeraj Shahane on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 12:16
As per reports, it has been revealed that no paper stocks of Facebook will be made available to any of the collectors. The announcement has been made recently by Facebook, which dashed the hopes of collectors.
Pakistan Blocks Access to Twitter for Hours
Submitted by Avinash Tripathi on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 12:56
It has been revealed in a new report that the popular social networking site Twitter has been blocked by Pakistan for refusing to remove offensive tweets.
The report has found that the site was promoting a competition on Facebook, which included a task, which is offensive to Islam. As per the competition rules, participants needed to post images of Prophet Muhammad.
