Category: business / corporates
Facebook accused of striking ‘secret deals over user data’
Facebook allowed some companies to maintain “full access” to users’ friends data even after announcing changes to its platform in 2014/2015 to limit what developers’ could see.
Source: Facebook accused of striking ‘secret deals over user data’ – BBC News
On marketing and reality
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei — one of the biggest smartphone brands in the world — has been grilled online for trying to pass off DSLR photography as if it was taken by the front-facing camera on its new Nova 3 smartphone.
The truth about this picture – NZ Herald
On censorship and security
the company has pulled VPN apps from the store and moved its iCloud operations to a local firm that has ties to the government.
On overusing the resources
French town of Vittel suffering water shortages as Nestle accused of ‘overusing’ resources
Jean-François Fleck, head of a local environmental group, Vosges Nature Environnement, said: “There has been a shortfall in water regeneration since the 1970s, when the water deficit was about 2.5 million cubic metres a year. Today it has stabilised at about 800,000 cubic metres, which is equivalent to Nestlé’s current usage.”
If nothing is done to halt the fall, residents used to having Vittel spring water on tap may be forced to rely on water piped in from the village of Lerrain, 12 miles away.
“The work would be funded out of people’s water bills so very clearly we are going to be paying so that Nestlé can continue taking and exporting our water,” Mr Schmitt said.