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Facebook and Instagram now show how many minutes you use them — TechCrunch

Facebook is launching screentime management dashboards for Facebook and Instagram in the US, writes Josh Constine in TC. Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/facebook-and-instagram-your-activity-time/

Google and Facebook are quietly fighting California’s privacy rights initiative, emails reveal — The Intercept

Lobbyists for the largest technology and telecommunications firms have only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, writes Lee Fang in The Intercept. Here...

Here are 454 pages of Facebook’s written follow-up answers to Congress — TechCrunch

In a pair of newly uploaded letters, the two Senate committees that grilled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April have published the social media...

A Facebook bug changed suggested sharing settings to ‘public’ for up to 14 million users — CNBC

About 14 million Facebook users who thought they were posting a message just to friends or smaller groups may have actually been sharing it...

Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in lawsuits on day one of GDPR — The Verge

Day one of GDPR enforcement, and Facebook and Google have already been hit with a series of lawsuits. The Verge's Russell Brandom writes, the lawsuits...