Facebook Is Doomed: It Allowed Companies to Read Users’ Private Messages
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PRIVACY: How Facebook sneakily uses IP data & more for targeted ads, even if users disable all location settings.
via 9to5mac: Aleksandra Korolova, a University of Southern California computer science professor, has shared a post on Medium diving deeper into Facebook’s targeted ad technology. Specifically, Korolova focuses on how Facebook is able to deliver location-based ads even if you disable …
Facebook sued by DC AG over data security concerns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/19/dc-attorney-general-sues-facebook-over-alleged-privacy-violations-cambridge-analytica-scandal/ The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, “likes” and other personal data about tens of millions of the …
Facebook offered users privacy wall, then let tech giants around it
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents underscore how personal data has become the digital age’s prized commodity. For years, Facebook gave …
Facebook Allowed Netflix, Spotify, And A Bank To Read And Delete Users’ Private Messages; The social network also allowed Microsoft’s search engine Bing to see the names of nearly all users’ friends without their consent, according to a report.
by AssuredlyAThrowAway via NYT: For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records …
Another bug: Photos of nearly 7 million Facebook users exposed
by DCG Four years and counting since I deleted my FB account. You couldn’t pay me to go back to it. From Hollywood Reporter: Facebook’s privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million …
Facebook Loses the Public’s Trust
by Jim Quinn You will find more infographics at Statista Out of the major tech companies, people trust Facebook the least with their personal information. Amazon and Twitter come in a distant second and third, with 8 percent of people saying they trust these companies the least …
YOU CAN’T TRUST THEM: Facebook’s Latest Leak Is a Timely Reminder That Your Data Is Snagged Even Before You Hit Publish.
via popularmechanics: Facebooked capped off its very bad year of data scandals with yet another leak of sensitive user information on Friday. This time, the social network disclosed a bug that made photos of 6.8 million users accessible to third-party developers, the …
FACEBOOK ‘bug’ exposes 5.6 MILLION users Private Photos
Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers too much access to the photos of up to 5.6 million users. The bug allowed apps users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook …
Australian Regulator Calls for Laws Limiting Google, Facebook Activities
by Thinker The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which is the country’s competition regulator, recommended overseeing the commercial activities of Google and Facebook in order to protect smaller tech firms. In its preliminary report released Monday, the ACCC called …
Facebook faces economic lawsuit over social media entrepreneur
Amid the ongoing controversy over political censorship on social media accounts, companies like Facebook are also being accused of hurting small businesses. One America’s Gabrielle Cuccia has more from Washington.
‘Just the Beginning’: Top Neocon Insider Claims Responsibility for Facebook Purge, Says More to Come
via thefreethoughtproject: (RT) — An employee of a leading Washington DC think tank has reportedly taken credit for the resent purge of alternative media by Facebook and Twitter, claiming it to be necessary to fight against ‘fake news’ from Russia and China. …
No, Facebook is NOT “Private,” Their Censorship Arm is Government Funded
via thefreethoughtproject: Facebook is not private. They are partnered with a NATO backed think tank to censor their platform that is funded by the US government. “Facebook is a private company and can delete any pages they want,” has been repeated …
Ben Swann: What you need to know about Facebook’s purge on independent media
RT, Released on 12/10/18 Manila Chan talks to investigative journalist, Ben Swann, about Facebook’s purge on independent media.
Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They’re Using Burner Phones to Communicate
Just thought that FB employees feeling the need to use burner phones might be a hint at how thoroughly our phones are spying on us. via nymag: Facebook’s reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and it’s …
Facebook censors photo that ‘may show violent or graphic content.’ Photo depicts Santa Claus kneeling to honor baby Jesus in manger.
Via True Pundit Facebook has censored a photo of Santa Claus kneeling in baby Jesus’s manger because, according to the guidelines, the photo may “show violent or graphic content.” According to LifeSiteNews, the photo was previously covered up by a banner …
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway.
via gizmodo: The business team wanted to get Bluetooth permissions so it could push ads to people’s phones when they walked into a store. Meanwhile, the growth team, which is responsible for getting more and more people to join Facebook, wanted …
Facebook spied on Android users’ calls & texts while pretending to care about privacy… Former GCHQ boss: could threaten democracy
Facebook tried to conceal that it was secretly vacuuming up call and text logs from Android users without their permission, newly-released internal documents have revealed. The hundreds of pages of documents, which were previously sealed as part of an ongoing …
Facebook’s seized files published by MPs
Emails written by Facebook’s chief and his deputies show the firm struck secret deals to give some developers special access to user data while refusing others, according to MPs. A cache of internal documents has been published online by a parliamentary committee. …
Top Trump Chief Just OBLITERATED Facebook And CNN – They Can’t Hide ANYMORE!
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Trump 2020 Campaign spokesman Brad Parscale sat down with Frontline for a lengthy discussion on the Facebook dilemma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_B9vI7Lr9s Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/brad-parscale-half-the-stuff-coming-out-of-cnn-is-fake-why-does-facebook-allow-cnn-on-there-video/
Facebook workers turn on Zuckerberg: Founder and CEO could be forced out amid fallout from company of spying on users’ calls and signing secret deals to hand over their data, insiders reveal
via dailymail: Facebook employees are turning on boss Mark Zuckerberg, it was reported last night, as British MPs leaked a trove of documents then accused the company of spying on users’ calls and texts and signing secret deals to give access …
How Google and Facebook cross ‘the creepy line’
From John Stossel at Reason: Companies like Google and Facebook collect information about us and sell it to advertisers. The information they collect and the way they collect it cross the “creepy line” according to a new documentary called “The …
San Francisco to remove ZUCKERBURG’s name from Hospital: ‘Facebook does not serve public interest’
Mark Zuckerberg could have his name REMOVED from San Francisco General hospital after a city official claimed that Facebook does not serve the public interest anymore *Supervisor Aaron Peskin drafts legislation to remove the Facebook CEO’s name *He believes that …
Facebook & Google could face huge fines in Russia over future legal violations – report
Moscow may start imposing hefty fines on tech giants, including Google and Facebook, over failing to comply with Russian legislation. The new fines will reportedly be equal to one percent of a firm’s annual revenue in the country. Russian authorities …
Facebook is going down in flames
UK Parliament seized internal documents related to Facebook’s privacy and data decisions. No one is going to like what the sausage factory actually does to make money… https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/25/18111007/uk-parliament-seized-internal-facebook-documents-app-developer-six4three-cambridge-analytica The UK Parliament used a rarely-used procedure to compel an app developer …
As FaceBook Bans Alternative Media to ‘Promote Online Safety,’ they Allowed a Child to Be Sold in a Post
via thefreethoughtproject: Last month, Facebook and Twitter — without warning or justification — deleted the pages of Free Thought Project and Police the Police which had over 5 million followers. During this purge, they also removed hundreds of other pages including …
George Soros Sold Huge Amounts Of Facebook And Netflix Just Before Tech Stocks Crashed
by Michael Snyder George Soros avoided a loss of more than 17 million dollars by dumping shares of Facebook, Netflix and Goldman Sachs just before the big crash started happening. In other words, he made out like a bandit by …
Facebook & Instagram down in major outage
Facebook and Instagram have been hit by major outages, with users reporting that the sites’ home pages showed a only a “service unavailable” message. Hours beforehand, Facebook’s Messenger app crashed around the world. Outages were reported on Tuesday afternoon in …
All The FANG Stocks Are Now In A Bear Market And Facebook Investors Have Already Lost 39 Percent Of Their Paper Wealth
by Michael Snyder These large stock market declines are starting to become a regular thing, and tech stocks are getting hit particularly hard. But we have been in a bull market for such a long time that many investors are having …
BUST: Facebook Faces 3rd Straight Month In The Red As Its Stock Continues To Drop
Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever, and some say there’s more pain ahead from CNBC. Facebook is facing a mountain of problems. The social media giant’s stock fell nearly 5 percent on Monday, hitting its lowest …