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Someday, most Facebook accounts will belong to dead people. Click to read the full fact.
Another month, another Facebook data breach. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sanyam Jain was able to locate an online database containing phone numbers linked to user IDs for over 419 million Facebook users. While linking phone numbers to user IDs is bad enough, in some cases the data included the user’s real name, gender, …
More proof Fabcebook is not to be trusted. Delete your account!
EU lawsuit is coming #GDPR
Facebook told TechCrunch “the data set is old and appears to have been obtained before [the company] made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.” The company says that data set has since been taken down and that it has no evidence Facebook accounts were actually compromised.
“the server wasn’t protected with a password, anyone could find and access the database.”
it’s another worrisome incident in a series of major data breaches at Facebook – in May, data for 49 million Instagram users was leaked as well.
From TechCrunch
The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million records on users in Vietnam.
This is the latest security lapse involving Facebook data after a string of incidents since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw more than 80 million profiles scraped to help identify swing voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The survey looks at how Americans feel about the data Facebook collects about them.
Lee Rainie NAILS IT - America, this is you...
“Americans, being Americans, say that it matters, but they behave in a way that doesn’t indicate that it matters.", Lee Rainie - PEW director
Sadder facts:
If a user doesn’t provide interests or affiliations, Facebook will ASSIGN them one. The accuracy is between 60-70%. What’s the algorithm?
Some Facebook users will actually update their interests if Facebook screws up #FACEPALM
Facebook keeps a running list of things it has learned about you for advertisers. At this point, the list isn’t incredibly hard to find: Go to your account settings, click on “ads,” and the list will appear, ready for you to peruse or modify as you see fit.
Checkout the Washington Post list.
These lists have been public for a while. In preelection 2016, The Washington Post compiled a list of 98 categories that Facebook might use to build a portrait of you for advertisers.
Once they had a chance to view this list, a slim majority — 51 percent — were not comfortable with Facebook collecting this information about them, according to the report, which was released Wednesday.
The survey was conducted in 2018, several months after Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica for improperly collecting data from Facebook users, a revelation that caused a major crisis of trust for the platform. The news was the catalyst for congressional hearings and an attempt to encourage users to quit Facebook. The company also announced that it would provide more information to users about how ads work on Facebook.
“We consistently find that there’s a paradox at the center of generalized privacy research,” said Lee Rainie, director of Internet and technology research at Pew.
Read the article for further details about what is assigned and the accuracy.
— About half (51 percent) of Facebook users are assigned a political label by Facebook.
— About 2 in 10, 21 percent, were assigned a “multicultural affinity” group.
Crackdown on dissent: Two Vietnamese Facebook users arrested over democratic freedom abuse - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Two well-known Vietnamese Facebook users, ex-reporter Truong Huy San, 62, and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien, 65, have been arrested by the police in Vietnam on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state”, according to a government statement released on Saturday. The arrests come as a major leadership reshuffle in the Communist-ruled country is settling…
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The level of reading comprehension on Facebook is insane. Tumblr people have their issues but at least you can get a decent debate or conversation that stays on topic, but on Facebook these people cannot have a proper debate or conversation to save their lives.
Facebook users can claim $725 million in settlements by the parent company Meta tied to the privacy solutions
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