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Did you give Facebook your phone number when it asked you to set up two-factor authentication? Be aware that Facebook is allowing people to look up user profiles based on the phone number the user added to their Facebook account. There is no way to completely hide your phone number. TechCrunch summarized this horrifying, privacy-breaching, Facebook problem this way: Last
TechCrunch reported that Facebook “will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store”. This comes after TechCrunch's investigation about Onavo code being used in a “Facebook Research” app that was sucking up data (including the data from teenagers). The Onavo Protect app will eventually shut down, and will immediately cease
The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee released a report titled “Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report”. The 18-month report is focused on Facebook. It concluded that Facebook broke privacy and competition law and should be subject to statutory regulation. The Guardian posted a detailed article about the report. It included a quote from it: “Companies like
Germany's Bundeskartellamt has prohibited Facebook from combining user data from different sources. This decision is not yet final, and Facebook has one month to appeal the decision to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. The decision covers the following data sources: Facebook-owned services like WhatsApp and Instagram can continue to collect data. However, assigning the data to Facebook user accounts will
TechCrunch released an extremely detailed article about the “Facebook Research” app that is well worth reading. This disturbing app was seeking teenagers (as well as adults aged 35 and younger) and paying users to install a VPN that sucked up all of a user's phone and web activity. Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up
Facebook announced that it has removed coordinated inauthentic behavior, this time, coming from Russia. This follows the October 2018 removal of coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran. Facebook's Nathaniel Gletcher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, wrote: Today we removed 364 Facebook pages and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network that originated in Russia and operated
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long end-of-the-year post on Facebook in which he said he was proud of the progress they made in 2018. He starts by mentioning what he identified as the most important issues facing the Facebook community. In my opinion, Mark Zuckerberg downplayed the biggest concerns that people have about Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg identified some of most of