French President Emmanuel Macron will hold 'frank' talks with Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on tax and data privacy in a week's time when he welcomes the bosses of leading tech firms to Paris in a drive to lure more investment

France’s Macron to hold 'tough talks' with Facebook's Zuckerberg in Paris meet

Zuckerberg is facing regulatory probes over data breach and privacy violation of around 90 million users.

Mark Zuckerberg may not testify before UK Parliament

Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

Facebook deletes 583 million fake accounts in first three months of 2018

Reports suggest that the social networking giant did not fully answer 39 queries and that it would be asked again for the missing details

UK lawmakers say Facebook hasn't fully answered queries on data privacy

The apps were suspended pending a thorough investigation into whether they misused any data

Facebook suspends 200 apps over data misuse investigation

WION evening news brief, May 14, 2018

Zuckerberg also believes in keeping fit. He is often seen posting online about his fitness goals and challenges that he keeps taking up to keep agile and fit

Life beyond Cambridge Analytica: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg turns 34

The social media giant has not given out too much information but they plan to use cryptocurrency primarily for facilitating payments on the website

Facebook planning to create its own cryptocurrency: Reports

Facebook has faced pressure from regulators, privacy advocates and shareholders since it said in March that political consultant Cambridge Analytica wrongly obtained personal data through a quiz app connected to Facebook. US lawmakers grilled Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for two days on the matter

Three-quarters Facebook users as active or more since privacy scandal: Poll

In case Arora's elevation materialises, he will join the league of Indian-origin CEOs like Microsoft chief Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai

'Business Guy' Neeraj Arora could be WhatsApp's next CEO

Facebook's users are becoming critical of the systems into which they’ve been conscripted

Opinion: Why do we stay on Facebook? It's complicated

SCL Group founder Nigel Oakes confirmed that both companies were closing, the WSJ said

Cambridge Analytica shutting down following Facebook crisis

Cambridge Analytica's data breach allegedly involved millions of users of Facebook users linked to US president Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign

Investigations cannot be impeded by closure of Cambridge Analytica: UK Parliament committee

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Zuckerberg also clarified that the optional feature will be for finding long-term relationships and 'not just hook-ups'

Now, Facebook to soon offer dating services

Zuckerberg previously declined to come in person to answer questions from British lawmakers, instead sending Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer to face a four-hour grilling last month

UK lawmakers prepared to summon Facebook boss Zuckerberg over data scandal

Jan Koum`s plan to exit comes after clashing with the parent company over WhatApp`s strategy and Facebook`s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, the Washington Post earlier reported

WhatsApp co-founder to quit in loss of privacy advocate at Facebook

Kogan had started Global Science Research (GSR), which was granted access to Twitter data

Never received Twitter data from GSR: Cambridge Analytica confirms 

The case is the latest to question whether methods used by technology firms such as Google and Apple to transfer data outside the 28-nation European Union give EU consumers sufficient protection from U.S. surveillance

Facebook seeks to block referral of privacy case to EU's top court

European shares were set to end the week with a flourish too with a pan-European index set to post its fifth week of gains in a row, with the tech sector outperforming

Tech gains, Korean talks lift world stock markets; sterling tumbles 

WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe to help it comply with new data privacy rules coming into force next month.

WhatsApp raises minimum age to use the service to 16 in Europe

Last month, Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower, had said the company had worked "extensively" in India

Government sends two notices to Cambridge Analytica over data breach

The Canadian, 41-year-old Sebastian Woodroffe, had been accused by villagers of murdering an indigenous medicine woman in the region of Ucayali and was killed in revenge by a 'mob,'

Peru judge orders two arrested for allegedly lynching Canadian

New policies will, for the first time, allow people to appeal a decision to take down an individual piece of content. Previously, only the removal of accounts, Groups and Pages could be appealed

Facebook releases long-secret rules on how it polices the service

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