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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
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation and safety. The goal? To find out which other …
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Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that’s about one month’s revenue for the social media giant.
To be clear the amount of fine… Continue reading Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations
Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords. Continue reading Facebook Data of Millions Exposed in Leaky Datasets
The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view. Continue reading Facebook Stored Passwords in Plain Text For Years
Facebook admits it’s using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can’t turn it off. Continue reading Facebook criticised for misuse of phone numbers provided for security
Another one of Facebook’s apps has been banned from Apple’s ecosystem due to the level of data that it collects and how it was distributed. Continue reading Apple Blasts Facebook Over Data-Sucking ‘Research’ App
We walk you through the important settings you can change and behaviors you can implement to lock down your privacy on Facebook. Continue reading How to protect your Facebook account: a walkthrough
The top cybersecurity and privacy trends that biggest impact in 2018. Continue reading Top 2018 Security and Privacy Stories
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify get themselves into Facebook’s next big privacy controversy.
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