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2019-04-18 Cyber

Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media company.
Since May 2016 was it? Nothing to do with the Presidential Election or spying on Trump campaign personnel I am sure. Something in the forthcoming Mueller report ?
In March, Facebook had stopped offering email password verification as an option for people who signed up for the first time, the company said. There were cases in which email contacts of people were uploaded to Facebook when they created their account, the company said.

"We estimate that up to 1.5 million people’s email contacts may have been uploaded. These contacts were not shared with anyone and we are deleting them," Facebook told Reuters, adding that users whose contacts were imported will be notified.

The underlying glitch has been fixed, according to the company statement.

Business Insider had earlier reported that the social media company harvested email contacts of the users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts.

When an email password was entered, a message popped up saying it was "importing" contacts without asking for permission first, the report said.

Facebook has been hit by a number of privacy-related issues recently, including a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees.

Last year, the company came under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, obtained personal data of millions of people’s Facebook profiles without their consent.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:25|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

I believe the term is 'incidental collection'.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:31|| 2019-04-18 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Last year, the company came under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm....

Yes, it's right here. I wonder whom Ccambridge might have been working for ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:43|| 2019-04-18 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million ~~users~~ suckers

FIFY. You are their commodity. You voluntarily hooked up to the Matrix. They just sell your information rather than use your energy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-18 07:23|| 2019-04-18 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 What's the old saying, "If the item is free, then you are the product."

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-04-18 12:34|| 2019-04-18 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 You voluntarily hooked up to the Matrix

No, the problem is that people who did voluntarily sign up had every email address in their contact list hoovered up, which means that many addresses (your, mine) may have been obtained without the adressees' knowledge.

That's the problem...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-18 12:41|| 2019-04-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Handy dandy way of getting non user info.

Purely by accident, of course.

Posted by charger 2019-04-18 14:18|| 2019-04-18 14:18|| Front Page Top

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