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A reporter for the British broadcaster Channel 4 went undercover as a Facebook moderator at CPL Resources. The person found that Facebook was failing to delete shocking images of graphic violence, child abuse, and racism, including a little boy being beaten by an adult man.
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 sidesteps the App Store and […]
About half of Facebook users say they are not comfortable when they see how the platform categorizes them, and 27% maintain the site’s classifications do not accurately represent them.
By Chris Hoofnagle - University of California, Berkeley | They claim not to sell data, but Facebook and Google have paid developers with data. This selling of your personal data is central to platform economics. Could quality signals change the terms of the bargain?
And the finding holds true across party lines
Story of a military mother who worried that her Facebook DMs could endanger her child if breached.
Popular apps like Kayak and Duolingo are firing off users' Google ad IDs to Facebook the moment apps are launched.
Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that 34 apps on Android, each with an install base from 10 to 500 million, transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.
Privacy scandals, congressional hearings, and PR disasters: a timeline of a long and difficult year for Mark Zuckerberg
Bet you already forgot half of Facebook's crises this year.
Mark Zuckerberg began the year promising that he would fix Facebook. He didn’t, and 2018 has only presented more problems.
FFS FACEBOOK.
BUT FACEBOOK AND ADVERTISERS CAN STILL REIDENTIFY YOU. FFS Facebook, ya liars.
FFS FACEBOOK
Facebook has always sold data to advertisers, and it probably always will.
A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on whether advertisers influenced fact-checking, saying in an email, “The primary way we surface potentially false news to third-party fact-checkers is via machine learning.”
Newly public documents provide a rare window into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's thoughts on how to expand his social media juggernaut.
FFS FACEBOOK.
DON'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ARCHIVE FFS. What did this dimwitted nimrod THINK was gonna happen?!