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Facebook Files Algorithm Patent To Predict Who You Live With

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2018/11/20/facebook-files-algorithm-patent-to-predict-who-you-live-with/

use algorithms based on tagging, hashtags and face recognition technology to determine who lives in the same household

Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/facebook-bug-website-leak-likes-interests-profile/

The vulnerability exposed the user and their friends’ interests, even if their privacy settings were set so that interests were only visible to the user’s friends

Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp – BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986

Rumours of child abductors spread through WhatsApp in a small town in Mexico. The rumours were fake, but a mob burned two men to death before anyone checked.

Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html

But the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46065796

Facebook said its security had not been compromised.

And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.

When Facebook launched Portal, the company promised that no data collected through the devices would be used to re-target users withs ads. Well, that turned out not to be true…

https://wersm.com/facebook-portal-can-collect-your-data-for-future-ad-targeting/

As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data

in-home panopticon

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.

Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html

Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook – WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-third-party-sites/

If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook.

Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/apple-facebook-onavo/

the app’s true intentions were buried deep in its description: “Onavo collects your mobile data traffic…

Hundreds of Instagram users report that their accounts have been hacked, with emails and phone numbers tied to accounts changed, preventing account recovery – Mashable

https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/instagram-hack-locked-out-of-account/#C5l2Wp7_pqqs

U.K. data watchdog’s report on Facebook shenanigans is far more shocking than $664,000 fine - VentureBeat

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/11/u-k-data-watchdogs-report-on-facebook-shenanigans-is-far-more-shocking-than-664000-fine/

Trust and confidence in the integrity of our democratic processes risk being disrupted because the average voter has little idea of what is going on behind the scenes.