"We are encouraged that Mark Zuckerberg has promised to improve the privacy settings and make them more protective", Mozilla said yesterday.
If you're completely off social media then kudos to you, but for those who just can not leave Facebook here are a few steps to "stay safe". "Given the high-level revelations and the turmoil surrounding the company with a strong public backlash, coupled with the overhanging threat of increasing regulation of the platforms and the EU GDPR on the horizon, we choose to quarantine Facebook", Sasja Beslik, Nordea's head of group sustainable finance, told Reuters. Even as we learn more about what Facebook does to us, that knowledge comes into conflict with what Facebook has grown to do for us. However, allegedly, Cambridge Analytica collected the personal information not only of those who replied to the survey, but also of all of those individuals' Facebook "friends".
Cambridge Analytica is a privately held company that combines data mining and data analysis with strategic communication for use in the electoral process. Shares of Facebook sagged 2.6% to $164.91 on Thursday in a brutal day on Wall Street.
And Facebook probably loved that I was telling all of my friends how great Facebook was, and how they really needed to join because I couldn't wait to see how their kids and pets looked in their Christmas sweaters.
While that is good news for some, for others it's not good enough.
Or when it became increasingly clear that Facebook knows too much about us and doesn't seem to care who else knows it, too. Facebook trusted Kogan with its data, but failed to verify that it was being used according to its requirements.
Zuckerberg also emphasized steps the company has already taken, including reducing access outside apps had to user data in 2014.
On March 20, Mozilla made this statement on the scandal, asking Facebook to protect privacy "by default" [Good luck with that one - Ed], and saying its app permissions leave "billions of its users vulnerable without knowing it".
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, understood this from the beginning. "For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months", Zuckerberg wrote.
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Read on to find out how you can also block Facebook ad-targeting. The ones paying Facebook are the advertisers who need Facebook's users to be there.
You may have heard the news about a data leak that was recently confirmed by Facebook.
That way brands can serve you direct marketing messages based on your interests, even when you're not on Facebook via other sites and apps.
"I hope it's only 50 million", Price's attorney and privacy and data breach litigator John Yanchunis told Newsweek Wednesday.
Well, I didn't actually tell anyone anything when I ghosted Facebook past year, abandoning all my "friends" and feeling like I'd done something good for my mental health. But the truth is Facebook will have to deal with investigations and enforcement action European Union regulators and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
At the same time, consumers have plenty of questions about what happened to the data harvested by Cambridge Analytica.
Earlier Wednesday, Zuckerberg commented for the first time since the news broke.
It's the lack of urgency, the inability to be proactive and the apparent unwillingness to do more than the minimum that's fueling the #deletefacebook movement that's emerging across the internet, including on Facebook. "People have kind of known what's now all over the press and they haven't left yet, and I don't think that this is going to push them over the edge because I think the convenience of relating over Facebook outweighs the concerns about privacy", he says. Gizmodo reports that complaint shareholder Fan Yuan has accused the company of making "materially false and/or misleading" claims about its handling of user data, and failing to disclose the ongoing situation has reduced the value of Facebook shares.
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