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Goodbye, News Feed. Hello, Feed. Meta said Tuesday that it is simplifying the name of the cornerstone of Facebook in order to "better reflect the broad nature of content you see as you scroll." The name change has begun rolling out in various parts of the flagship blue application, and this process will continue over…

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Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users'' activity across the internet, even if they had logged out of the platform.

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB ), the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay $90 million to settle high-profile, long-running data privacy litigation. The lawsuit pertains to its use of tracking "cookies" in 2010 and 2011 to track subscribers'' internet use even after they had logged off the Facebook platform. The case filed in 2012 focuses on … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to the media as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott campaigns at the DPS headquarters on Jan. 27, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Texas is suing Facebook parent Meta, saying the company has unlawfully collected biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Paxton filed the lawsuit Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in a state district court. | Joel Martinez, The Monitor via Associated Press The Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook The Texas attorney general is suing Meta, Facebook’s parent company, stating that the company collected biometric data on Texans without informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit Monday in state district court, alleging that Meta has been “storing millions of biometric identifiers,” which include iris scans, voiceprints or a record of hand and face geometry, per CBS News . This information was collected through photos and videos people uploaded to Meta’s services — like Facebook and Instagram — and was not destroyed within a reasonable time.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People stand in front of the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. October 27, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Facebook (NASDAQ:) agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users’ internet activity even after they logged …

Remember writing on your friend’s “wall” before the Facebook timeline? Now, the Facebook “news feed” will join the graveyard of anachronisms in our memories. Henceforth, the “news feed’ will now be known as just the “feed.” Starting today, our News Feed will now be known as "Feed." Happy scrolling! pic.twitter.com/T6rjO9qzFc — Facebook App (@facebookapp) February […]

Remember writing on your friend’s “wall” before the Facebook timeline? Now, the Facebook “news feed” will join the graveyard of anachronisms in our memories. Henceforth, the “news feed’ will now be known as just the “feed.” Starting today, our News Feed will now be known as "Feed." Happy scrolling! pic.twitter.com/T6rjO9qzFc — Facebook App (@facebookapp) February […]

The world’s largest retailer has its eyes set on the metaverse. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Walmart’s Plans For The Metaverse I’m talking about Walmart (NYSE:WMT), where more than 240 million shoppers visit each week. Walmart’s not the sort of business you’d expect to dive headfirst into a brand-new tech megatrend. But it […]

The News Feed will now just be the Feed. | Image: Facebook Meta is changing the name of Facebook’s News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared. Going forward, it’ll just be called the “Feed,” according to a tweet from the company on Tuesday. The “News Feed” name had been in place since the feature was first introduced more than 15 years ago. In some ways, it’s a massive change — Facebook is one of the world’s most-used platforms, and the Feed is its main interface. On the other hand, it is “just a name change to better reflect the diverse content people see on their Feeds,” according to an email sent to The Verge by Facebook spokesperson Dami Oyefeso. The change “does not impact the app experience more broadly.” Starting… Continue reading…

The name of Facebook’s main interface, the News Feed, is getting shorter. The company says it’ll now just be called the Feed, but it says there won’t be any big change to how it works.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 2012 lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts. The settlement was submitted for approval Monday evening in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It […] The post Meta’s #facebook to pay $90 million to settle decade-old privacy lawsuit appeared first on ByteFunding .

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has settled a decade-old class action lawsuit over the company’s use of “cookies” in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they logged off the Facebook platform

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 2012 lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts.