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Social media site Reddit faces being fined for the first time in Russia for not deleting "banned content" that Moscow says discredits the Russian army, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a Moscow court.Reddit joins a list of sites under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, including Wikimedia, streaming service Twitch, and Google. Reddit could be fined up to 4 million roubles ($43,895) for failing to remove "knowingly false information" about the Soviet Union's…

Reddit is moving to a new chat architecture, removing all the chats and messages before 2023, as the company believes pulling older messages will enable a "smooth and quick transition" to the new architecture. The change took effect on June 30th, but many users only noticed days later.Reddit disclosed the cutoff in a changelog, but didn't notify community members directly. As a result, some users lost their message logs and could not back up their histories. But, there is a way to recover these deleted chats.This is how…

Apple rolled out the third beta of its upcoming iOS 17 operating system. The third beta includes several new features and also brings improvements and refinements to the existing features as well. One of these features is the new menu icon at the bottom of the Recently Deleted album that combines two functionalities into one. New menu option for deleted photosInstead of adding two dedicated buttons for deleting or recovering the photos from the Recently Deleted album, Apple has added a new three-dot menu icon at the…

Threads arrived earlier this week, and people registered with their Instagram username, as the Twitter alternative is powered by photo-centric social media. However, many discovered that you cannot delete the account on Threads once created; you can only disable it. Deleting the Threads username will also automatically apply to the Instagram profile, erasing everything. Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, revealed Meta is aware of the issue and is working on a workaround and suggested users to deactivate their account for…

Meta’s Threads is already a sensation, at over 30 million accounts and over 95 million posts since its launch more than a day ago. Threads is also a very Meta creation. That is a clone of a social network built into one of Meta’s apps. Yes, Threads is a separate download, but it uses the backbone of Instagram. You rely on the same account to get into Threads, and you can automatically follow the same people once they get on the Twitter-like platform. But it’s also incredibly, very, very Meta to tie Threads to…

With Meta, there’s always a catch. Sure, you can sign up for the company’s newest Twitter clone Threads. You can use your Instagram account to get a unique badge to show you’re now a Thread head. The thing is, you can deactivate your Threads profile, and you can delete the app, but deleting your profile on Threads will also delete your entire Instagram account as well.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsIn the morning after release, users were quick to spot a clause in Threads’ Supplemental Privacy Policy that mentions “You may…

The Securities and Exchange Commission fined the broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase $4 million for accidentally deleting about 47 million emails from early 2018, according to an administrative order Thursday.Some of those deleted emails were sought by subpoenas in at least a dozen regulatory investigations, but could no longer be retrieved, the SEC order against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC noted.Others "could relate to potential future investigations, legal matters and regulatory inquiries," the order said.The…

Google to Delete Inactive Accounts Few things are worse in the world of technology than a file being deleted forever. At that point, you pray that document or piece of code hasn’t disappeared from the recycle bin, at which point you can forget about getting it back entirely. But Google intends to make a general deletion of all those accounts that nobody uses on its platform. And if you do not want yours to be one of them, we are going to tell you what you have to do. Requirements for Account Deletion Last…

With regulatory standards getting stricter about data security and privacy, many organizations have had to revamp their policies about customer and user content. Though GDPR and other regulations don't list a specific number of years for data retention, they do ask companies to follow best practices to determine how long to keep information.In updating its own policy for unused data to two years, Google cited security issues as a determining factor. Even though the company said it tries to protect customer information…

Google is finally cracking down on inactive accounts. This week, Google announced an update to its inactivity policy, lowering the amount of time that a Google Account can stay inactive to two years. Starting later in 2023, if you haven’t used or logged in to a Google Account for at least two years, Google may delete the account and all of its contents. That includes content within Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar, YouTube, and Google Photos. As Google explains, accounts that haven’t been accessed for an…