The streets of Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25, 2018, which added a slight element of danger to the prospect of trekking to the Hotel Seehof for George Soros’ annual banquet. The aged financier has a tradition of hosting a dinner at the World Economic Forum, where he regales tycoons, […]
Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists…
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook…
Facebook Quietly Notifies Public That Millions of Instagram Users Had Passwords Exposed…
While everyone was focused on the release of the Mueller report Thursday, Facebook quietly notified the public that the passwords of “millions of Instagram users” were stored in an unencrypted format on an internal server, and searchable by any employee. The company had initially said it was “tens of thousands” of Instagram users. That said, […]
Somebody Needs to Put This Man in Time Out: Mark Zuckerberg Proposes Regulating Political Discussion, Immigration Debate…
In a Good Morning America interview with George Stephanopoulos, Thursday, Zuckerberg declared, “All of the laws around political advertising today primarily focus on a candidate and an election, right, so, ‘Vote for this candidate in this election.’ But that’s not, primarily, what we saw Russia trying to do and other folks who were trying to […]
How Is This Co. Even in Business?: Facebook Harvesting New Users’ Email Contacts ‘Without Consent’…
According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
My God it’s Never Ending: Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information…
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him […]
Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]
Wall Street’s Banksters Are Clandestinely Trading the “Digital Gangster” Stock of Facebook…
Being called a “digital gangster” by an investigative committee of the United States’ closest ally, the United Kingdom, might have been expected by the rational among us to do some serious damage to the share price of Facebook when it opened for trading this morning. The U.K. report was released yesterday when U.S. markets were […]
The FTC and Facebook Negotiating a Multi-Billion-Dollar Fine for the Company’s Privacy Violations…
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into the social media giant’s privacy practices, according to two people familiar with the probe. The fine would be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a technology company, but the two sides have not […]
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