Posted on 12/14/2018 4:13:56 PM PST by BenLurkin
Facebook believes as many as 6.8 million users could be affected.
The Irish Data Protection Commission, the body that oversees Facebook’s compliance with European regulations, said on Friday that it had launched a “statutory inquiry” into Facebook as a result of multiple breaches the company had informed them about this year.
Photos that users started to upload to Facebook but did not post could have been accessed, along with images posted to Facebook Stories, Tomer Bar, an engineering director at Facebook, wrote in a blog post. “We’re sorry this happened,” he added.
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It’s only an issue because Faceboob didn’t get a cut.
This is why one never puts their mug on mugbook. Kinda defeats the purpose of ‘friends and relatives’ keeping in touch.
Stay away from Farcebook and your privacy is a little safer.
If GPDR is enforced, Facebook will be bankrupt.
GPDR will of course not be enforced.
Facebook. It was not a bug. It was a feature.
“We’re sorry this happened,”
Translated into English he said:
“We’re sorry we got caught and in the future we’ll try to hide our tracks better.”
All these mistakes make me think it is intentional. They already think your data is their data.
That’d be the ‘bug’ the bastards got a few million for, more likely.
Wonder how much they charged the "3rd party app developers"?
Does this include all the nude photos Facebook tried to coerce users to send in to help combat “revenge porn”?
I put a small photo on my Twitter account - I may have been 3 months old when it was taken some 66 years ago....
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