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Dec 14, 2018 · Today, Facebook announced that a bug in its API exposed private photos for 6.8 million users who were using one of 1,500 apps connected to the platform. This photo leak bug let the developers...
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Dec 17, 2018 · The photos were leaked to approximately 1,500 third-party apps, unintentionally giving 876 developers access to users’ photos that hadn’t been uploaded to their timelines. The leak left the photos exposed to developers for a total of 12 days, from September 13th to September 25th.
- Celebrities were treated differently by Facebook. Getty Images. According to documents reported by the Wall Street Journal, many celebrities, politicians and high-profile Facebook users had different rules governing what content they could post, under a system known as XCheck (cross-check).
- Its response to employee concerns about human trafficking was often 'weak' The BBC found that women were illegally bought and sold as domestic workers. The documents reported by the WSJ also suggested Facebook employees regularly flagged information about drug cartels and human traffickers on the platform but the company's response was "weak".
- Facebook faces a huge lawsuit from shareholders. Facebook is also facing a complex lawsuit from a group of its own shareholders. The group alleges, among other things, that Facebook's $5bn (£3.65bn) payment to the US Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was so high because it was designed to protect Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability.
- Has Facebook been promoting positive stories about itself? This week, the New York Times suggested that Facebook had started an initiative to pump pro-Facebook content into people's news feeds in order to boost its image.
Apr 16, 2021 · Facebook users whose data was compromised by a massive data leak are being urged to take legal action against the tech giant. About 530 million people had some personal information leaked,...
Dec 17, 2018 · The social media giant has admitted to exposing private photos from 6.8 million users to apps who were not given access.
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Jul 7, 2023 · Having her private, intimate images shared was devastating. But the invasion of privacy made it even worse, leaving her distraught and humiliated after what should have been a legal victory. The...
Nov 28, 2022 · The leaked information, spotted by Insider, was posted to an online hacking forum and included the full names, phone numbers, locations, and birthdates of users on the platform from 2018 to 2019.
