Internet privacy

The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly voted to approve fining Facebook roughly bn to settle an investigation into the company's privacy violations that was launched following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, The Guardian wrote.

Almost half of Turkish children do not have enough knowledge to protect their privacy online, a security chief has told parliament.

A global survey shows that 86% of Internet users admit they have been fooled by fake news, the Sabah newspaper reported. The main platform for misleading information was the social network Facebook.

Facebook Inc. announced that a security incident that has exposed a number of Instagram passwords to internal risk was significantly worse than initial expectations, reported Econ.bg

Statistics show that 19 out of 20 Europeans use Google when they search for something on the web. EU Commissioner for Competition Margareta Vestager, however, is not among them. She uses the competing search engine Qwant, which claims that does not collect personal data from users for a commercial purpose.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this on Monday during his visit to Hungary, Tanjug is reporting, citing AP.

One of the biggest problems in our times is the fact that very few respectable people want to get involved in politics or public life in general. And who can blame them? Politics has become an extreme sport suitable only for people with strong stomachs and nerves. In the era of social media, what we used to call a "hot seat" has become a Colosseum. Any notion of privacy has been lost.

Serbian citizens' personal data will thus be protected in the same way as in EU member states, the Ministry of Justice said on Monday, on the occasion of Data Privacy Day, Beta agency reported.

American tech giant Google has opened a new office in Berlin that it says will give it the space to expand in the German capital, reports AP.

CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday the space means Google could more than double the number of Berlin employees to 300. Google currently has 1,400 employees in Germany.

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