Collaborate Disseminate
It appears that Facebook at the center of yet another issue involving privacy.
Reportedly, multiple iPhone users have come forward on social media complaining that the Facebook app secretly activates their smartphone’s camera in the background while t… Continue reading Is Facebook Secretly Accessing Your iPhone’s Camera? Some Users Claimed
Following a series of security mishaps and data abuse through its social media platform, Facebook today expanding its bug bounty program in a very unique way to beef up the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform.
La… Continue reading Facebook Now Pays Hackers for Reporting Security Bugs in 3rd-Party Apps
FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason.
The Russian-made FaceApp has be… Continue reading Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users’ Facebook Friends List
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company h… Continue reading Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users.
First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now…
…the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach.
More than half a b… Continue reading 540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation into how Facebook is still allowing blabby apps to violate its privacy policies. Continue reading Facebook apps secretly sending sensitive data back to the mothership
Facebook’s latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users.
Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in it… Continue reading New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps
When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, th… Continue reading Facebook Finds ‘No Evidence’ Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps
Reminder—If you’ve forgotten about any Google app after using it once a few years ago, be careful, it may still have access to your private emails.
When it comes to privacy on social media, we usually point fingers at Facebook for enabling third-party… Continue reading Reminder—Third Party Gmail Apps Can Read Your Emails, “Allow” Carefully!
People are still getting over the most controversial data scandal of the year, i.e., Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook is under fire yet again after it emerges that a popular quiz app on the social media platform exposed the private data of up … Continue reading Another Facebook Quiz App Left 120 Million Users’ Data Exposed