Google & Facebook Fined for Spying on Users
It’s very disappointing how these incredible platforms and technologies end up being used in such unethical ways. via RT Image: © Getty Images / Westend61 A French privacy watchdog accused the tech giants of making it difficult for users to opt out of tracking their activity France’s online privacy regulator has ordered Google and Facebook to cough up some €210 … Continue reading
Scraped Data of 1.5 BILLION Facebook Users Offered for Sale on the Dark Web – Reports
“It’s the “biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date,” according to the publication…” via RT Headline Image credit:© REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has another headache: The personal data of 1.5 billion customers, scraped from his platform, is reportedly being offered for sale on the dark web. User IDs, … Continue reading
Facebook Buys Mind-Reading Startup for $1BN
Facebook has acquired neural interface startup CTRL-Labs in a deal expected to be worth around $1 billion (£800m). The US-based startup joins Facebook Reality Labs, the social media giant’s augmented and virtual reality division, with the idea of bringing its mind-reading technology into consumer products. It is Facebook’s biggest acquisition since it bought virtual reality startup Oculus VR in 2014 … Continue reading
Facebook Privacy Breach Leaves Hundreds of Millions of Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts were left exposed on an unprotected server in the latest massive security breach to plague the embattled tech giant. Up to 419 million phone numbers were stored on a database housed on multiple servers including the numbers of an estimated 133 million US-based users alone. The revelation comes just weeks … Continue reading
“HAL” A.I. System Being Built by NSA, Facebook Developing Brain-Machine Interface
“Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building this system. We are building HAL.” – NSA researcher In a little noticed bombshell report by James Bamford in 2009, it was revealed that the NSA’s massive database of information, including social media, was being used to create … Continue reading
Facebook Admits Having Unencrypted Passwords of Millions of Users
The social media giant previously came under fire when it turned out that companies like Cambridge Analytica could easily gather vast amounts of information about Facebook users and later use it in various campaigns, including political ones. Facebook has posted a statement saying that its latest internal security review has revealed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of Facebook … Continue reading
Facebook Admits Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Accounts
Facebook has apologized for a “security issue,” after discovering that hackers used a vulnerability in the platform’s code to steal other users’ ‘access tokens’ and log into their accounts. 50 million accounts were affected. In a statement released Friday, the company said that attackers could use Facebook’s “view as” tool – which lets a user see what their profile looks … Continue reading
Facebook is Asking Its Users to Upload Their Nude Pics, Here’s Why
Given Facebook’s horrible privacy reputation, I wonder how many of their users will actually do this. via sputniknews: The company has come up with a pilot project designed to protect its users’ data and help resolve the “revenge porn” problem. As part of its trial mechanism to prevent intimate photos from being published without one’s personal consent, Facebook has called … Continue reading
“Wake up!”, Facebook & Google Getting Too Big to be Governed Says French President Macron
Wise words indeed from the President of France. By now it’s fairly common knowledge of Google’s privacy breach attempts (Google Collects Location Data from Android Users Even With Service Disabled – Report (Google Spying: Voice Assistant Records and Keeps Conversations You Have Around Your Phone) with no consequence and with recent exposure of shady Facebook activities (Data Downloads Reveal the … Continue reading
More Facebook Sins, Admits Violated User Privacy by Deleting Execs Messages from Their Inbox
Ah, who else but giant companies can carry out and get away with such actions, what a wonderfully balanced society we live in. via RT: As the firestorm surrounding Facebook’s handling of user data continues to rage, it’s now emerging that the social media site giant reached into people’s accounts and deleted messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. … Continue reading
