Facebook starts fact checking photos/videos, blocks millions of fake accounts per day
Facebook has begun letting partners fact check photos and videos beyond news articles, and proactively review stories before Facebook asks them. Facebook is also now preemptively blocking the creation of millions of fake accounts per day. Facebook revealed this news on a conference call with … Read More
Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s plan for voters’ Facebook data
More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than … Read More
Cambridge Analytica reportedly still hasn’t deleted Facebook user data as promised
Portions of the Cambridge Analytica data on as many as 50 million Facebook users may still be out in the wild, according to a report yesterday from the UK's Channel 4 News. The news organization says it has seen a cache of data dating back to the 2014 survey results …
Facebook Shuts Down Third-party Ad Partnerships
Some background: There's an enormous industry of companies besides Facebook that harvest user data and then sell it or access to it. They sometimes have freshman-philosophy names like Acxiom or Experian or Epsilon. In addition to Facebook's own targeting mechanisms, high-level operation might … Read More
Facebook logged SMS texts and phone calls without explicitly notifying users
In at least one previous version of the Messenger app, Facebook only told users that the setting would enable them to “send and receive SMS in Messenger”, and presented the option to users without an obvious way to opt out: the prompt offered a big blue button reading “OK”, and …
Facebook may have kept the videos you recorded but never pubished
Mark Zuckerberg's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad 2018 keeps getting worse. As people have begun downloading their Facebook data, they've found something unsettling: videos they recorded, but never published on the site. Recently, a Select/All writer's sister was sifting through her data and … Read More
Facebook cleans up privacy measures in new update
Facebook has released an update of the measures the brand is going to take, following Mark Zuckerberg's announcement regarding the Cambridge Analytica situation last week. According to a blog post, Facebook would be cracking down on the abuse of the Facebook platform, strengthening its … Read More
Facebook Is Making Big Changes to Its Relationship With Data Brokers
Facebook is placing new limits on the data it shares with data brokers—companies like Acxiom and Oracle Data Cloud, which compile dossiers on consumers so as to make it easier for advertisers to target them with appropriate pitches. Relatively few people are aware of how these shadowy companies … Read More
Shares of a company that trafficked in personal Facebook data are plunging
Shares of third-party data provider Acxiom fell roughly 11 percent after Facebook announced it was ending that arm of its business. Acxiom lowered its guidance by $25 million as a result. Facebook's announcement was part of an effort to clean up its data collection practices after news that millions of … …
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook business chief leans out of spotlight in scandal
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, there has been a glaring lack of leadership from Facebook. Almost five days of silence passed before its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced the public with a post to his Facebook profile and a series of well-rehearsed interviews with handpicked … Read …