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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers.

Nå jobber Zuckerbergs tidligere mentor for å bryte opp Facebook - NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/11/na-jobber-zuckerbergs-tidligere-mentor-for-a-bryte-opp-facebook/

– At det å kunne forutsi folk oppførsel har blitt den mest profitable businessen uten at vi har blitt klar over det bør skremme oss alle

Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/03/facebook-phone-number-look-up/

Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use to “look up” their profile.
Worse, Facebook doesn’t give you an option to opt-out.

Facebook Allows Users to Look Up Others With Their Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number, With No Opt-Out — Pixel Envy

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/facebook-lookups-by-two-factor-authentication-numbers/

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. - WSJ

https://t.co/809LqgTjyb

At the heart of the issue is an analytics tool Facebook offers developers, which allows them to see statistics about their users’ activities

Stempler Facebook som «digitale gangstere» – NRK Urix

https://www.nrk.no/urix/stempler-facebook-som-_digitale-gangstere_-1.14437301

I rapporten anklager den tverrpolitiske mediekomiteen Facebook for å ha satt demokratiet i fare fordi de har eksponert brukerne sine for desinformasjon spesielt i forbindelse med valg.

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

Facebook har i en årrekke betalt tenåringer for å få spionere på dem

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/01/30/facebook-har-i-en-arrekke-betalt-tenaringer-for-a-fa-spionere-pa-dem/

Appen installerte et såkalt rotsertifikat
Dette betyr blant annet at Facebook har kunne se hvilke nettsider tenåringene surfet på og hva de skrev i private chatmeldinger.

Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools

A number of organizations […] have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers.
Now, Facebook has quietly made changes to its site that stop those efforts.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

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 app that Apple banned in June

Kommune nekter lærere, elever og foreldre å kommunisere på Facebook – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/finnmark/kommune-nekter-laerere_-elever-og-foreldre-a-kommunisere-pa-facebook-1.14395331

Den nye personvernloven som kom i fjor, har ført til at Alta kommune nå nekter ansatte i skoler og barnehager å bruke Facebook for å kommunisere med elever og foreldre.

Privacy International claims most Android apps share data with Facebook without user consent - IT PRO

https://www.itpro.co.uk/privacy/32634/android-apps-share-data-facebook-without-user

The social media giant’s third-party tracking via the Facebook SDK may constitute a GDPR breach

2018-kommentar: Facebook endret seg aldri som selskap. Konsekvensene ble bare større. – NRK Beta

https://nrkbeta.no/2018/12/31/2018-kommentar-facebook-endret-seg-aldri-som-selskap-konsekvensene-ble-bare-storre/

Become A Facebook-Free Business – Signal v. Noise

https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business-5bfefc20c09d

Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/14/facebook-photo-bug/

The bug allowed apps users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook Stories, Marketplace photos, and most worryingly, photos they’d uploaded to Facebook but never shared.