Facebook drops a bombshell and says most of its 2 billion users may have had their personal data scraped (FB)

Stephen Lam/Reuters Facebook made a bombshell admission about the security of its users’ personal information on Wednesday, in a startling revelation that’s almost certain to worsen the privacy crisis currently hanging over the world’s largest social network. “Most” of Facebook’s 2 billion users may have had their personal data skimmed from the site by “malicious […]

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones [Updated]

Enlarge / This screen in the Messenger application offers to conveniently track all your calls and messages. But Facebook was already doing this surreptitiously on some Android devices until October 2017, exploiting the way an older Android API handled permissions. (credit: Facebook) [Update, March 25, 2018, 20:24 Eastern Time]: Facebook has responded to this and […]