by AppleInsider | Feb 27, 2021 | AR/VR, augmented reality, Facebook
Facebook is reportedly weighing up the legal implications of building facial recognition technology into a pair of smart glasses that the company is currently developing and which it intends to launch later this year. Prototype Project Aria AR glasses Facebook is... by AppleInsider | Feb 25, 2021 | App Tracking Transparency, Facebook
Facebook is launching a new PR campaign that highlights how small businesses rely on personalized advertising to help their businesses grow from "an idea into a livelihood." The new campaign indirectly takes aim at App Tracking Transparency (ATT), an upcoming iOS 14... by AppleInsider | Feb 23, 2021 | Australia, Facebook
Facebook has announced that it will restore the ability for users in Australia to share news content on the social platform, following changes to the country's media code. The company banned all news sharing last week in response to a proposed Media Bargaining Law,... by AppleInsider | Feb 21, 2021 | Facebook, WhatsApp
WhatsApp has revealed how it will gradually cripple the accounts of its users who do not accept the platform's impending privacy policy changes, due to come into effect on May 15. WhatsApp's new banner explaining the privacy policy changes According to an email seen... by AppleInsider | Feb 18, 2021 | Australia, Facebook
Facebook has followed through on its threat to ban users from sharing news on its platform in Australia, in response to proposed media laws in the country that the company claims "fundamentally misunderstand" its relationship with publishers who share news content.... by AppleInsider | Feb 13, 2021 | antitrust, App Tracking Transparency, Facebook, privacy
Apple and Facebook have been in a very public spat over the course of the last few months as Apple dials up its pro-privacy stance. The two companies have long had tension, more recently however Facebook is taking shots at an upcoming iOS and iPadOS feature that will... 