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Facebook's US and Canada daily user base dropped to 196 million for the third quarter,. This is compared to 198 million for the second quarter, the company said in its earnings release. Facebook's monthly active users also dropped, by one million, down to 255 million. "As expected... we saw Facebook DAUs and MAUs in the US & Canada decline slightly from the second quarter 2020 levels which were elevated due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic," CFO Dave Wehner. Many Facebooks users are moving towards Instagram and Tiktok.
Business Insider reports that H&M has been fined $41.1 million by a German regulator. The company was caught monitoring "several hundred employees" at its service center in Nuremberg, Germany. In 2018 The EU introduced new General Data Protection Regulation laws. This is the second-largest fine levied against a single company over data breaches since the 2018 laws were put into effect. Since 2014 supervisors and managers at H&M have been storing data on employees. The data includes information from meetings and workplace conversations, such as medical symptoms, family issues, and religious beliefs. This data was sometimes used to make employment decisions. H&M compensated all affected staff, and said that the company views privacy and data protection as "top priority."
Facebook are carrying out an investigation after the personal data of 50 million influencers was leaked.
Sitting on a five inch booster seat, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, underwent five hours of questioning from Congress on Tuesday.
Images of the office of communications firm Cambridge Analytica in London which has denied misusing Facebook data for the Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. IMAGES