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  2. "Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook". (February 22, 2019)
  3. "TikTok, as a deal with Oracle nears, is working to settle a privacy suit filed on behalf of users as young as eight years old, WSJ Pros David Uberti reports. The complaints claim that TikTok sends user data to Chinese servers and improperly collects voiceprints and face geometry scans to recommend content based on users age, race and physical attractiveness". (September 15, 2020)
  4. "The move is the company’s most concrete response so far to pressure to dial back the feature after it was used to broadcast the attack on 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand". (May 15, 2019)
  5. "A survey found just 52% of employees were optimistic about Facebook’s future, down from 84% a year earlier. The darker mood comes amid a dropping share price and disclosures of privacy violations". (November 14, 2018)
  6. "The Wall Street Journal’s testing of over 70 applications that handle sensitive information turned up 11 that were sending at least some data to Facebook. Five have now reduced or ended data transfers to the social media giant". (February 25, 2019)
  7. "Make no mistake: The fundamental premise of Facebook’s business—gathering more data about us in order to reach us with more-targeted and effective advertising—will stay the same, writes Christopher Mims". (March 7, 2019)
  8. "Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users’ weight and menstrual cycles". (February 24, 2019)
  9. "Facebook banned an array of personalities whose views it deemed too inflammatory to be shared on its social network, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, far-right talk-show host Alex Jones and conservative Jewish activist Laura Loomer". (May 2, 2019)
  10. "With a power move against two of its biggest rivals, Apple reminded the world what power it has over not only other major companies, but anyone using an iPhone". (February 2, 2019)
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