Mozilla campaign leads to Meta implementing privacy protections - ITREALMS

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A recent campaign by Mozilla has led to Meta implementing crucial privacy protections for users of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat feature, reports ITREALMS.

The protections, ITREALMS gathered, were put in place after Mozilla sounded the alarm about the "Discover Feed," a public stream where personal AI-generated conversations were being shared without users' knowledge or consent.

Meta plans to elevate Ray-Ban smart glasses - ITREALMS

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Meta Platforms Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook Inc. has concluded plans to elevate its Ray-Ban smart glasses with advanced intelligence. Beginning next month, these sunglasses will receive an AI enhancement that promises to revolutionize your perspective on the world, reports ITREALMS.

Meta also known as TheFacebook Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California, just as it owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services.

Journalists demand change in Google, Meta's media policies - ITREALMS

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Google, Meta and other tech giants are making it more challenging to access independent media content in Belarus, exiled journalists have told the European Commission.

By complying with restrictions Alexander Lukashenko's government has imposed, these companies have "become tools for a totalitarian and authoritarian regime to put pressure on civil society instead of helping to promote independent media," the exiled journalist Natalia Belikova told the Financial Times in January.

Meta offers new protections for Teens on Facebook, Instagram - ITREALMS

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As part of efforts at improving Child Online Protection, the Meta Platforms, has introduced new guidelines to give the Teens more age-appropriate experiences, reports ITREALMS.

Some of the takeaways in the new offering for teens include the ability to hide more types of content for teens on both Instagram and Facebook.

Maida reassures Meta, foreign investors of NCC support - ITREALMS

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The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, has reassured Foreign Investors of the support of the Commission, reports ITREALMS.

Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka in a press statement available to ITREALMS, quoted Maida as speaking while receiving a delegation of Meta, formerly Facebook, led by the company’s Vice President for Africa, the Middle-East and Turkey, Kojo Boakye, when they visited NCC's headquarters in Abuja, said the regulatory support to all investors, including operators in Nigeria, will be predicated on their playing by the rules and regulations guiding the sector.

WhatsApp introduces ‘Communities’ - ITREALMS

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WhatsApp Messenger has introduced ‘Communities’ on its platform, ITREALMS reports.

Disclosing this to ITREALMS on Thursday, November 3, 2022, the founder of Meta, owners of WhatsApp, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, said the latest in the shelf of WhatsApp, the ‘Communities’ makes groups better.