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
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…
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
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.