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Wow, Fb Actually Made a Facial Popularity App for Its Staff

In its newest privateness pretend pas to come back to gentle, Fb showed it constructed a now-defunct app for its workers that used facial popularity era to spot coworkers and their buddies, CNET reported this week.
In its latest privacy faux pas to come to light, Facebook confirmed it built a now-defunct app for its employees that used facial recognition technology to identify coworkers and their friends, CNET reported this week.

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Author: Gizmodo

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  4. "Despite surging traffic and readership as coronavirus keeps people in their homes and on the internet, the media layoffs and pay cuts just keep coming. Now, here to save journalism in its hour of need, Google has launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally. OK, Googlethis relief fund is a drop in the bucket compared to the cash the company has raked in over the years while helping to gut publishers left and right". (April 16, 2020)
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  7. "Britain swore an oath of sovereignty against Apple and Google earlier this year, resolving to devise a workable contact-tracing app that didnt have to cave to Apple and Googles user privacy demands. After numerous warnings from experts that the app simply wouldnt work, the rollout has been delayed from May to winter, and now Britain is joining countries like Germany and Italy, which reluctantly agreed to work with the tech companies in the early phase of development. Now, they both have contact-tracing apps". (June 19, 2020)
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