(18/04/2019) "Ooops, I accidentally your contact list"
Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
Le tribunal de grande instance de Paris condamne Facebook à verser 30 000 euros à l’UFC-Que Choisir, en raison de 430 clauses d’utilisation jugées illicites. Le réseau social modifie ses CGU, à la demande de la DGCCRF et de la Commission européenne.
Material discovered on Amazon cloud servers in latest example of Facebook letting third parties extract user data
Facebook confirms it took down Elizabeth Warren's ads about Facebook, but is in the process of restoring them. FB spox: "We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo. In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads.”
Imperva, a cybersecurity company, on Thursday detailed a flaw with Facebook Messenger that allowed potential attackers to learn who you were talking with on the chatting service.
The security bug didn't show the content of the messages, but just knowing who you were in touch with has the potential to harm your privacy, said Ron Masas, the security researcher who discovered the vulnerability.
Order follows report that Facebook may access highly personal information including weight, blood pressure and ovulation status
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August.
Facebook orchestrated a multiyear effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and then often refused to give the money back [...]
The 18 December 2018, the New York Times reveals that Facebook had given extended access to user data, on a much wider scope that it has previously disclosed.
On the 14 December 2018, Facebook announces throught a blog post that they discovered a bug in their Photo API that allowed a broader access than usual for 12 days.
In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each other. The author, an engineering manager at Facebook named Ben Chen, wrote that it was not merely possible to detect that two smartphones were in the same place at the same time, but that by comparing the accelerometer and gyroscope readings of each phone, the data could identify when people were facing each other or walking together. That way, Facebook could suggest you friend the person you were talking to at a bar last night, and not all the other people there that you chose not to talk to.