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Latest scandals:

(13/05/2019) WhatsApp vulnerability allows to install spyware

A vulnerability found in Facebook's owned messaging service WhatsApp, allowed a spyware to be installed allegedly linked to the NSO group.

Note: the funny part here is that nothing in the release notes of the update mentionned the vulnerability when the dev team was aware of it.

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(05/01/2019) Facebook wants to scan encrypted person-to-person WhatsApp messages for content Facebook or repressive governments dislike

Facebook plans to install an on-phone AI content moderation algorithm that would flag a post and prevent it from being sent if a user attempts to send a rules-violating post via encrypted WhatsApp message.

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(25/04/2019) Facebook is punishing Black people for talking about racism

Black people who openly discuss experiences of racism or call out white privilege often have their Facebook accounts suspended, according to a new report by USA Today.

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(18/04/2019) Facebook waited until the Mueller report dropped to tell us millions of Instagram passwords were exposed

Given the terrible run of form it’s been on over the last year, it probably shouldn’t be that surprising that Facebook waited until the highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election to deliver some bad news.

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(18/04/2019) Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users' Passwords in Plaintext

Facebook late last month revealed that the social media company mistakenly stored passwords for "hundreds of millions" of Facebook users in plaintext, including "tens of thousands" passwords of its Instagram users as well.

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(18/04/2019) "Ooops, I accidentally shared your contact list"

Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent

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(16/04/2019) 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.

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(11/04/2019) Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show

Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.

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(10/04/2019) Condamné pour clauses abusives en France, Facebook modifie ses conditions d’utilisation

Le tribunal de grande instance de Paris condamne Facebook à verser 30 000 euros à l’UFC-Que Choisir, en raison de 430 clauses d’utilisation jugées illicites. Le réseau social modifie ses CGU, à la demande de la DGCCRF et de la Commission européenne.

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(3/04/2019) Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on public servers – report

Material discovered on Amazon cloud servers in latest example of Facebook letting third parties extract user data

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(11/03/2019) Facebook confirms it took down an anti-Facebook add

Facebook confirms it took down Elizabeth Warren's ads about Facebook, but is in the process of restoring them. FB spox: "We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo. In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads.”

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(7/03/2019) Facebook Messenger bug revealed who you had conversations with

Imperva, a cybersecurity company, on Thursday detailed a flaw with Facebook Messenger that allowed potential attackers to learn who you were talking with on the chatting service.

The security bug didn't show the content of the messages, but just knowing who you were in touch with has the potential to harm your privacy, said Ron Masas, the security researcher who discovered the vulnerability.

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(22/02/2019)'Outrageous abuse of privacy': New York orders inquiry into Facebook data use

Order follows report that Facebook may access highly personal information including weight, blood pressure and ovulation status

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(24/01/2019) Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August.

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(24/01/2019) Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money

Facebook orchestrated a multiyear effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and then often refused to give the money back [...]

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(18/12/2018) Facebook allowed Netflix, Microsoft, Spotify and Amazon access to private messages and personal information of users

The 18 December 2018, the New York Times reveals that Facebook had given extended access to user data, on a much wider scope that it has previously disclosed.

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(14/12/2018) Facebook Photo API bug exposes 6.8 millions of users' photos

On the 14 December 2018, Facebook announces throught a blog post that they discovered a bug in their Photo API that allowed a broader access than usual for 12 days.

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(1/11/18) Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each other. The author, an engineering manager at Facebook named Ben Chen, wrote that it was not merely possible to detect that two smartphones were in the same place at the same time, but that by comparing the accelerometer and gyroscope readings of each phone, the data could identify when people were facing each other or walking together. That way, Facebook could suggest you friend the person you were talking to at a bar last night, and not all the other people there that you chose not to talk to.

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(15/09/2015) Facebook’s Like Buttons Will Soon Track Your Web Browsing to Target Ads

Starting next month, the millions of Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons that publishers have added to their pages and mobile apps will start funneling data on people’s Web browsing habits into the company’s ad targeting systems.

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