3/2019 Millions of Facebook records were exposed on public Amazon server
A treasure trove of Facebook data containing more than 540 million records was exposed online in a public database, security researchers from UpGuard said Wednesday. The data contained extensive details, including people’s comments, likes, names and Facebook IDs. It had been collected by two third-party Facebook apps. “Facebook’s policies prohibit storing Facebook information in a public database. Once alerted to the issue, we worked with Amazon to take down the databases. We are committed to working with the developers on our platform to protect people’s data,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. In the incident revealed Wednesday, the databases resided on Amazon cloud servers without any protection, and came from a Mexico-based media company called Cultura Colectiva, as well as another app, called At the Pool. […]
50 Million Facebook Accounts Affected in Massive Security Breach 8/28/18
https://gizmodo.com/50-million-facebook-accounts-affected-in-massive-securi-1829394250
In your face…book!
GET OFF FACEBOOK PEOPLE !!!!
This isn’t about privacy, this is about MONOPOLY!
Zuckerberg surveillance capitalism
HEY OLD PEOPLE !! GET OFF FACEBOOK
What I Gave My Kid Instead of a Smartphone
After seeing things on social media no parent could unsee, I decided to do something about it
What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System
DO YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK SHADOW PROFILE? But what are Facebook shadow profiles? find out what #facebook knows about you even when you don’t have an account
Facebook Discovers Security Issue Affecting 50 Million Accounts, Letting Hackers Take Them Over
10/18 Facebook hackers accessed more private information than previously revealed https://abcnews.go.com/Business/facebook-hackers-accessed-private-information-previously-revealed/story?id=58463352
ACLU Files Charges Against Facebook for Enabling Advertisers to Target Only Young Men for Jobs
https://gizmodo.com/aclu-files-charges-against-facebook-for-enabling-advert-1829137692
11/18 Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
12/18 British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/05/last-laugh-on-zuck.html
and Facebook defends data-sharing after new report on partner deals | The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/20/business/facebook-defends-data-sharing-new-report-partner-deals/
Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world
The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/facebook-twitter-journalism-misinformation.html
NYTimes: Republicans Find a Facebook Workaround: Their Own Apps
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/technology/politics-apps-conservative-republican.html
How to Delete Facebook and Instagram From Your Life Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/personaltech/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-account.html
Who will be the Che Guevara of the tech world? An AI names CHE with some clever acronym? “Computing with High Ethics”