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Police arrested a carjacking suspect on July 17 at 3698 Haven Avenue in Redwood City, near the Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park. Map via Google Maps. Redwood City Police arrested a 38-year-old man suspected of carjacking in the early morning of Saturday, July 17, not far from Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park. Around midnight on Saturday, Redwood City police officers got a report of a carjacking at 1405 Marshall Street, according to a Monday, July 19, statement. A driver and passenger were parked in front of the apartment building, police said. When the driver left the car to go into the complex, the passenger was approached by a man with a gun who forced him from the vehicle. The suspect drove off, heading southbound on Marshall Street toward Chestnut Street, according to the statement. At 2:46 a.m., Menlo Park police officers located the stolen vehicle behind 3698 Haven Avenue. When they attempted to contact the driver, he fled on foot, police said. Officers from the Menlo Park and Redwood City police departments searched a homeless camp nearby and located the man hiding under a trailer.  » Read More

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Facebook has planned to enter into the online payments race with the launch of its Facebook Pay for online retailers outside its platform starting in August. Facebook Pay was launched in 2019 but so far it has been restricted to the Facebook platform and its associated platforms like Whatsapp and the company plans to extend this into its other platforms like Instagram as well shortly. But as this develops, the company also plans to throw open its payments system to online retailers and e-commerce platforms which will put it in direct competition with other giants like Paypal and Amazon as the payments space heats up.The digital payments industry is expected to grow exponentially in the coming months as the latest generation of users are being tuned to opt for cashless payments not only online but for offline purchases too. While this was going on, the pandemic also pushed the users to prefer digital payments as users were forced to stay indoors and make use of online digital payments even for their basic needs.  » Read More

On Friday, Facebook Inc. published the first edition of its Compliance Report in accordance with Rule 4 (1) (d) of the 2021 Information Technology (Interim Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Regulations. The report provides details of the actions taken on Facebook and Instagram content created by Indian users that violate the norms. Facebook has identified two metrics. This includes “Content Actioned”, which measures the number of content (posts, photos, videos, comments, etc.) that the platform has taken action to violate community standards. Shows the scale of enforcement activities. The second metric, Proactive Rate, shows the percentage of all content or accounts that the company found and flagged before the user reported it. This is an indicator of how effectively Facebook detects violations. Facebook said in its first report from May 15th to June 15th, 2021 that it took action against content that violates community standards that 10 different categories or companies call policy areas. I did. We are taking measures against 25 million spam contents with a proactive rate of 99.9%.  » Read More

By Shamim AdamUpdated July 18, 2021 — 4.21pmWashington: Facebook has pushed back against the Biden administration’s denouncing of the social media giant for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, escalating tensions between the Silicon Valley company and the White House.In a blog post on Saturday (Sunday AEST), Facebook called for the administration to stop “finger-pointing” and laid out what it had done to encourage users to get vaccinated. The social network also detailed how it had clamped down on lies about the vaccines, which officials have said led people to refuse to be vaccinated.Facebook has been criticised for allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to thrive.Credit:AP“The Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice-president of integrity, said in the post. “The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the US has increased.”Rosen added that the company’s data showed that 85 per cent of its users in the United States had been or wanted to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.  » Read More

White House to push Facebook to censor posts regarding COVID-19 misinformation A tense exchange happened between FOX News Peter Doocy and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the White House mission to work with Facebook to censor some COVID-19 related posts. Facebook is responding to President Joe Biden’s claim that the social media network is not doing enough to censor posts that contain misinformation about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  "At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies," the company said in a statement on Saturday. "While social media plays an important role in society, it is clear that we need a whole of society approach to end this pandemic." The company further added that more and more of its U.S. users are getting the COVID-19 vaccine and the total number has increased from 70% to about 80-85%. RELATED: White House says Facebook needs to work harder to censor COVID-19 misinformation Facebook said it has even stepped up its efforts to decrease vaccination hesitancy.   » Read More

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Former White House Press Secretary and "Outnumbered" co-host Kayleigh McEnany joined "Hannity" on Friday and slammed the Biden administration for openly admitting to working with tech companies to flag what it considers misinformation.KAYLEIGH MCENANY: I hear a lot of things in the White House press briefings that I take issue with (or I know it’s a deception or not a truthful matter in what’s being spun to us) like saying Republicans want to defund the police, but I literally almost fell out of my chair when I heard an admission from the podium that they are working with social media companies to censor. This is the crux, Jason, of the lawsuit put forward by President Trump (that class action lawsuit). He says social media is colluding with the government and thus becoming state actors and trampling on the First Amendment. People said "Oh no, that’s crazy. President Trump, that’s crazy." It was admitted from the podium and then doubled down on today Fox News contributor Joe Concha also weighed in,  » Read More

Law360 (July 15, 2021, 10:02 PM EDT) -- The European Union's data protection authorities on Thursday directed their colleague in Ireland to investigate how Facebook uses personal information from its WhatsApp subsidiary, although they rejected a request by a German regulator to immediately ban Facebook from processing that data.The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information announced in May that he had issued an order that would be effective for three months to prohibit Facebook from processing personal data from WhatsApp for its own purpose, in the wake of an update to WhatsApp's terms of use and privacy policy that the regulator alleged granted the messaging service "far-reaching... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs,  » Read More

United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says that misinformation — much of it on tech platforms — is a public health threat that has cost people’s lives and prolonged the Covid pandemic. As Murthy said in a Thursday press conference, health advisories are usually about things people physically consume: food, drinks, cigarettes. But the first advisory of his tenure in the Biden administration (he was also the surgeon general under President Obama) is about what we consume with our eyes and ears: misinformation. The advisory comes with a set of guidelines on how to “build a healthy information environment,” with recommendations for everyone from social media users up to the platforms themselves (also: health workers, researchers, and the media). Murthy also went on some of those very platforms to spread the message, including Twitter and Facebook. “Today, we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health,” Murthy said in a press conference, adding that “modern technology companies” have allowed misinformation and disinformation to spread across their platforms “with little accountability.” The advisory isn’t a set of orders that must be followed by these companies,  » Read More