Facebook is accused of attempting to bypass Europe's hard-line privacy legislation and access personal data on domain name holders through an obscure policy process with the Whois registry. Read More
Topic: Facebook
Facebook Alters Video to Make People Invisible to Facial Recognition
Facebook AI Research says it's created a machine learning system for de-identification of individuals in video. Startups like D-ID and a number of previous works have made de-identification technology for still images, but this is the first one that works on video. In initial tests, the method was able to thwart state-of-the-art facial recognition systems. Read More
Facebook Takes on the World of Cryptocurrency With ‘Libra’ Coin
Facebook unveiled plans Tuesday for a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, pledging to deliver a stable virtual money that lives on smartphones and could bring over a billion "unbanked" people into the financial system. Read More
Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Passwords in Plain Text
Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users' passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with access to certain internal systems. Read More
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees - in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data. Read More
Apple Bans Facebook’s Research App That Paid Users For Data
In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their phone in exchange for $20 per month. Apple tells TechCrunch that yesterday evening it revoked the Enterprise Certificate Read More
Privacy International Hits Out at Unconsented Facebook Tracking Within Apps
Popular apps like Kayak and Duolingo are firing off users' Google ad IDs to Facebook the moment apps are launched. Read More