Social media
Facebook admits tracking non-account users
11 Apr 2015
Digital technology, social media depress users: study
09 Apr 2015
People who log on to Facebook more frequently evaluate themselves against their friends more often and experience more depressive symptoms
Facebook violating EU privacy norms, finds Belgian study
01 Apr 2015
The BPC report finds that Facebook tracks everyone, even logged-out users or people who don’t have an account, primarily through the use of cookies and the ‘like’ button which is found on more than 13 million websites worldwide
Facebook denied Indian patent for crawler app
25 Mar 2015
SC strikes down Section 66A of IT Act as ‘unconstitutional’
24 Mar 2015
A bench of the Supreme Court termed the law an infringement of the Constitutional right to freedom of expression, and rejected the centre’s assurance that it would not be misused
India tops in asking Facebook to block undesirable content
17 Mar 2015
Facebook restricted access to nearly 6,000 items on its website in India during July-December 2014 - the highest for any country
Facebook to buy TheFind to enter e-commerce
16 Mar 2015
SC slams centre for inaction over gang-rape videos
14 Mar 2015
In sharp contrast to the immediate ban on a BBC documentary on the Delhi rape, the cops have done nothing to catch the perpetrators of the video-filmed gang-rape that has appeared on social media
Facebook sharing information on user behaviour
11 Mar 2015
ISIS gives Twitter the jitters with death ‘fatwah’
03 Mar 2015
Frustrated by the social media site consistently blocking its accounts, the vicious militant group ISIS has put a post on the less-popular site Buzzfeed showing Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s face in the cross-hairs of a gun
Facebook sets up single-button suicide helpline
27 Feb 2015
New funding to value Snapchat at $19 bn
19 Feb 2015
Facebook, Yahoo create ThreatExchange to fight cyberattacks
13 Feb 2015
ThreatExchange will enable companies to share information about threats, without fear of liability
Twitter adds video, group messaging
28 Jan 2015
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