MP Exposes Facebook’s Emails

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Highly confidential emails are exposed by the Parliamentary Chair MP Dalian Collins which was sent between Mark Zuckerberg and the Social Media’s staff. The emails were obtained from the chief of a software firm that is suing the tech giant. The MP Dalian Collins highlighted a few keynotes some of which show to still maintain full access to user’s data without their consent, and also take control of an android update which will breach the user data again which includes messages and calls without any notice. In response, Facebook has said that the documents had been presented in a "very misleading manner" and required additional context. With a personal response of Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, they also stated that they stand by the platform changes made in 2015 to stop a person from sharing their friends' data with developers, and the data has never been sold to anyone.



Most Downloaded iPhone Apps of 2018

Apple has announced its rundown of the most downloaded applications of 2018, with YouTube coming out on top surprisingly, trailed by Instagram, Snapchat, Messenger and Facebook. YouTube has been in the tech trends on account of the new features they have been taking off in this year; Instagram was the users' most favourite social app. Snapchat, despite the broader narrative around the business, also managed to remain very popular among teenagers, with active downloads and is still being downloaded at a high rate. Moreover WhatsApp additionally figured out how to stay put in the most downloaded applications list. TikTok being a sensation all through didn't kick the iPhone clients this year like the Bitmoji application did a year ago. So it's not necessarily a measure of where attention is. But still, the charts do reflect broader interest, especially for incoming users.


Samsung’s Advertisement in Trouble

Author and photographer Dunja Djudjic lodged a complaint against Samsung Malaysia for utilizing one of her photographs to advertise the portrait mode capabilities of the Galaxy A8 Star, a mid-range phone that came out over the summer. Djudjic suspects that Samsung authorized the image from her through the photograph site EyeEm, so payment isn’t necessarily a problem. But Djudjic does say that the photo wasn’t taken with an A8 Star phone. Instead, it was taken with a DSLR camera that she owns. Samsung doesn’t state outright that the photo was taken on the A8 Star Samsung doesn’t state outright that the photo was taken on the A8 Star, but it’s certainly implied by the page it’s on, which is intended to outline the smartphone’s capabilities. Djudjic's photograph was likewise altered for use on the A8 Star page. The photo’s subject (Djudjic) was cut out from the foreground, touched up, and pasted over another background. Her face was then colour-corrected to match. She stated it as a “Franken-image.”

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