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Regulators, from several countries, are investigating Facebook's privacy practices. This comes after Facebook has done numerous sketchy things with user's personal information, passwords, and data. It seems to me that at least one of these investigations will result in meaningful consequences and/or penalties for Facebook. In the United States, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an investigation into Facebook's
In March of this year, as you may recall, Facebook announced that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text. At the time, Facebook said it would notify “hundreds of millions of Facebook lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users” about this. On April 18, 2019, Facebook made
It feels like we are hearing about Facebook doing nefarious things with people's data at least once a week. The latest news comes from Business Insider which reported that Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Business Insider has learned that since May 2016, the social networking company
Facebook created Watch Party as a way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. It was intended to turn watching videos into a social activity. According to Business Insider, Watch Party is popular with pirates, who use it to run illegal movie marathons. The intended purpose of Watch Party was to allow Facebook users to host
It seems that Facebook cannot prevent itself from causing security and privacy problems. According to KrebsOnSecurity, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. A anonymous Facebook insider talked with Brian Krebs. The insider said Facebook is still trying to determine how many passwords were exposed, and
Senator Elizabeth Warren said that if she is elected president in 2020, her administration will break up the giants of the tech industry. This was announced at SXSW in Austin, and in a detailed post on Medium. In that post, Senator Warren mentioned Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Senator Warren's plan would classify any company that runs a marketplace and makes
Facebook announced a plan to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic. Here is what Facebook plans to do: They will reduce the ranking of groups and Pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations in News Feed and Search. These groups and Pages will not be included in recommendations or