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The City of Mount Pearl breached the privacy of Steve Kent by reading his Facebook Messenger chats while Kent was suspended from his job as top civil servant, a Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court judge has ruled."I find that Mr. Kent has privacy rights in the disputed messages," Justice Alexander MacDonald wrote in a decision released Thursday morning."I find that the city infringed those rights."MacDonald made the decision as part of court actions filed by two former councillors, Andrea Power and Andrew Ledwell, to get reinstated to their seats.Power and Ledwell were dismissed from Mount Pearl council in June 2020 for failing to disclose a conflict of interest.They were accused of having discussions with Kent about a workplace harassment investigation involving him. Kent had been placed on paid leave by the city in the fall of 2019.Kent intervened in the ongoing court matters involving the two former councillors, contending that Facebook Messenger chats between himself, Power and Ledwell should be excluded from the record.  » Read More

Facebook has seen an over 25 per cent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years, an industry analysis report showed on Friday. The South Korean MAU tally for Facebook (operated by Meta) reached 11.09 million as of last month, compared with 14.87 million in May 2020, when the company started compiling related data, according to Mobile Index, the data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks. The tally was based on data from the mobile app stores of Google and Apple. The July figure also represents a 17 per cent on-year decline from 13.34 million, reports Yonhap news agency. The downward trend is attributable to the consistent decline in young Facebook users in South Korea. According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute, the usage rate of Facebook among those aged between 25 and 38 was recorded at 27 percent in 2021,  » Read More

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On August 17, it was revealed that Aam Aadmi Party and its leaders’ Facebook pages were being managed by admins not only from India but from the United States, Qatar, and Lithuania. Media house The Indian Affairs, in its expose, explained how the official Facebook pages of Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leader Atishi Marlena, AAP RS MP Raghav Chaddha, and others had admins living in the US, Qatar, and Lithuania. Soon after the expose, the admins from foreign countries were removed. During its investigation into the official Facebook pages of AAP and its leaders, The Indian Affairs team made some shocking discoveries. It was revealed that AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s official Facebook page had 26 admins from India, one from the United States, and one from Qatar. As of now, only 10 admins from India manage the page. Rest all including those from Qatar and the US have been removed along with 16 from India. Source: Facebook In the case of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Facebook page,  » Read More

FBI has been spotted using a Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car, and it is looking pretty badass for a law enforcement vehicle. Electric vehicles are quickly becoming popular with police departments who are doing the math and finding out that with the amount of mileage they put on their patrol vehicles, they can’t afford not to go electric. Tesla vehicles have been the preferred electric cars for law enforcement due to their capabilities, but other EVs are starting to catch up. The Boulder Sheriff recently said that their new Tesla Model Y is going to be cheaper than their current police patrol cars in just 6-18 months. For decades, Ford has been the preferred brand of law enforcement for its gasoline-powered cars, and now that it has the Mustang Mach-E, there’s a way for police departments to go electric with a Ford. Last year, Ford Mustang Mach-E passed the Michigan State Police test, and we have since seen several law enforcement agencies adopt the electric SUV. But now we learn that even the FBI is on board with the Mach-E,  » Read More

by: Amanda Holly Posted: Aug 16, 2022 / 01:54 PM EDT Updated: Aug 17, 2022 / 07:25 AM EDT TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The sun didn’t rise in Tampa until 7:01 a.m. on Tuesday. The sunsets are slowly getting earlier as well the farther we get into August. For the next three months, on average, each day will lose about 85 seconds of daylight. The sunrise will get later and the sunsets will continue to get earlier. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, there is a total of 13 hours and six minutes of daylight in Tampa. In the next month, west central Florida will lose almost an hour of daylight. Two months from now, on Oct. 16, there will only be 11 hours and 28 minutes of daylight, down over an hour and a half from mid-August with a 7:30 a.m. sunrise and a sunset before 7 p.m. The fall back time change is taken into account three months from now. On Nov.  » Read More

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Crunchers! Wait, that’s kind of a weird nickname, as if you’re munching on granola. What should we call y’all? Never mind that. Tomorrow, we’re running a Twitter Spaces where Jacquelyn and Anita are talking about what’s new in the world of crypto with Ryan Selkis. It’s at 1:00 p.m. PDT, and you can easily set yourself a reminder here. Have an awesome week!  — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s getting hot in here: Software aimed at helping small businesses take online orders is on fire right now, and Meta is fanning the flames with a new investment in Take App — the Singapore-based startup that is providing simple tools for merchants to create a website and begin taking orders via WhatsApp,  » Read More

Colin Stretch joins the Washington, D.C., office as Of Counsel in the Public Company Representation and Emerging Companies Practices, /PRNewswire/ -- Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Colin Stretch, Facebook Inc.'s (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) General Counsel from 2013-2019, has joined the firm's Washington, D.C. office as Of Counsel, with a focus on the Public Company Representation and Emerging Companies Practices. He will provide strategic counsel to clients, including pre-IPO and public companies and boards of directors, on a wide range of issues, spanning transactional, regulatory, public policy, and litigation matters across the globe. Colin Stretch "We are honored to welcome such a distinguished and outstanding talent to the firm," said Daniel Lennon, Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins' Washington, D.C. office. "Colin is a superb strategist with exceptional regulatory, litigation, and corporate governance experience, and he will prove an asset to clients addressing the various high-profile and complex situations that he routinely encountered at Facebook." As General Counsel, Stretch oversaw Facebook's legal and compliance functions and corporate legal affairs.  » Read More

Home News Computing (Image credit: Meta) Meta has announced it is soon adding end-to-end encryption by default to its Facebook Messenger platform, with tests “between some people” already taking place.End-to-end encrypted messages can currently be enabled individually for each chat, however the company is set to roll this out on a wider scale.“Conversations are currently stored on your device,” says Meta Trust’s Product Management Director, Sara Su, whose company is seeking a solution to “back up those messages in case you lose your phone or want to restore your message history on a new, supported device” with secure storage.Facebook Messenger encryptionIt seems that Facebook’s messaging platform is succumbing to pressures for increased security, which has become the norm in recent years with apps like Signal setting the benchmark. Meta’s own WhatsApp has also long supported encrypted messaging.Along with the Facebook-based Messenger, Meta is also testing end-to-end encryption in direct messages sent through Instagram.  » Read More

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff went on Facebook and berated a animal cruelty suspect as a “despicable excuse for a human being” after she was charged with drowning her Chihuahua.The 32-year-old woman was already in the Brevard County Jail on charges she stabbed a 68-year-old man when police were given video of her allegedly walking into a pool and holding the tiny dog underwater. Sheriff Wayne Ivey posted a Facebook video in which he described the abuse and made his thoughts clear about the crime.“There is a special place in hell for this woman. Until she gets there, she’s going to rot in our jail,” Ivey said.He showed a brief portion of the video, but said it was too graphic to show in its entirety. After drowning the dog, she slammed it down on the concrete patio, then put its body in a chair inside the home for several days, at one point holding it up during a social media post, Ivey said.“This woman, if I hear as much that she has a pet rock,  » Read More