Facebook takes out newspaper ads to beg for forgiveness
The ads had the signature of company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is in full damage control since it was revealed that British political consultants firm Cambridge Analytica mined Facebook data to help candidate Donald Trump. Read More
Facebook: call, text history logging requires users’ permission
“You may have seen some recent reports that Facebook has been logging people's call and SMS (text) history without their permission. This is not the case,” Facebook's statement said. The Verge website reported that some Twitter users said they found months or years of call history data in their … Read …
Facebook saves extensive call, text data made by Android users: Ars Technica
Android cellphone users have noticed that Facebook has saved a virtual trove of their personal call data that extends back years, according to a report in Ars Technica. Amid an outcry over the social network's handling of a controversy involving a third-party application's misuse of personal data, the … Read More
Zuckerberg’s Full-Page Newspaper Ads on Facebook Data Scandal: ‘We Expect There Are Others’
Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg seem increasingly worried about the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica data-scraping scandal, which has put a renewed focus on the terrifying amount of info it has accumulated on its users, and specifically how doling all that information out to third parties for … Read More
How Facebook is undermining democracy
Just as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's corporate juggernaut was being engulfed by a crisis it steadfastly had refused to confront for years, Donald Trump rode to the rescue, upping the ante in his ongoing trade skirmish with China. It wasn't as though Facebook escaped the caning meted out by … Read …
Zuckerberg takes out ads to apologize as Facebook data misuse crisis intensifies
The ad refers to the misuse of 50 million Facebook profiles, which were mined through an app created by a Cambridge University professor and then sold, in violation of Facebook's terms of service, to Cambridge Analytica, a company that used the profiles to create election ad-targeting tools for the … Read …
Did Facebook read my private emails?
The news reminds me why I stopped using Facebook (Report, 22 March). Back in 2015-16 my mother was dying and I only used my BT email when writing to family and friends about her, never mentioning her on Facebook, the only social media I used. Suddenly I started getting pop-up …
Facebook apologizes for privacy breach with full-page newspaper ads
Facebook isn't just relying on TV appearances to apologize for its poor handling of Cambridge Analytica's data sharing. The social network took out full-page apology ads in several major US and UK Sunday newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday … Read More
Heat rises on Zuckerberg to testify over Facebook data leak
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is under growing pressure to make a pledge to testify to US lawmakers about the scandal over the Cambridge Analytica data leak engulfing his company. Mark Warner, a Democratic senator playing a leading role in Congress's scrutiny of social media, said on … Read More
Facebook logs texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts
As users continue to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a number are discovering that the social network holds far more data about them than they expected, including complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages. The #deletefacebook … Read More