Loss of life can be justified if it helps Facebook to grow - internal memo

In a statement to Buzzfeed, which Facebook confirmed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Mr Bosworth a "talented leader who says many provocative things" but added that the memo was something "that most people at Facebook, including myself, disagreed with strongly". He continued: "We've never ...

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4 Ways Facebook Is Trying to Combat Election Meddling

Facebook outlined how it plans to increase security and thwart election meddling as pressure mounts on the social network to curb the rise of fake news and foreign interference. Facebook continues to face criticism for its failure to prevent users from sharing misleading news on its service, particularly in ...

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A look at Facebook's 'ugly' memo

The leaked Facebook memo, entitled "The Ugly" and penned by longtime exec Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, has upped the creepy quotient on the world's largest social network, even as it wrangles with the current scandal about its data dealings and the work of voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.

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Facebook reviews defenses as exec pulls foot from mouth

Facebook held a press conference on Thursday to provide details about its efforts to prevent electoral manipulation, only to have its damage control eclipsed by the publication of an executive's internal memo from 2016 suggesting growth mattered more than human life. Acknowledging that Facebook ...

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Another chapter on Facebook's privacy woes is being written in Latin America

The abuse of Facebook's platform for political purposes is a problem that doesn't stop at the U.S border. Governments around the world are continuing to wrestle with the implications of Cambridge Analytica's acquisition of Facebook user data from the heart of Europe to the capitals of Latin America's ...

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This is how Cambridge Analytica's Facebook targeting model really worked — according to the ...

In an email to me, Cambridge University scholar Aleksandr Kogan explained how his statistical model processed Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica. The accuracy he claims suggests it works about as well as established voter-targeting methods based on demographics like race, age, and gender.

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'Maybe someone dies': Facebook VP's staff memo justified bullying, terrorism on social network

Bosworth, who oversaw Facebook's advertising and business platform at the time and is now in charge of the company's virtual reality department, has acknowledged writing the message but said he intended only to start a debate. "I didn't agree with it even when I wrote it," he wrote on Twitter after ...

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Facebook Employees in an Uproar Over Executive's Leaked Memo

In the memo, Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook vice president, wrote, “Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* ...

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After leaked memo, Facebook seems to reckon with culture shift

Even as it preached openness, compared to other companies in Silicon Valley, Facebook was relatively leak-proof. Now, that appears to be changing. On Thursday, someone leaked an explosive memo from one of the company's internal discussion groups. It was a major reveal that took on an energy of ...

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Quitting Facebook? Download your data before you go

If you are finally ready to quit Facebook once and for all, you should take your data -- all your posts and messages, photos and videos, friends and groups and so on -- with you before you go. Thankfully, Facebook makes it easy to download your data. So easy, in fact, that it's worth doing even if you ...

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Facebook executive 'did not agree with provocative memo'

Days after these revelations, Facebook faced new questions about collecting call logs and information on text messages from Android devices. The company still has not explained exactly why it need this data and what it did with it, saying only it was used to improve people's experience on Facebook.

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The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

These kinds of leaks didn't happen when I started reporting on Facebook eight years ago. It was a tight-knit cult convinced of its mission to connect everyone, but with the discipline of a military unit where everyone knew loose lips sink ships. Motivational posters with bold corporate slogans dotted its ...

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Facebook's Ideological Imperialism

It's mostly forgotten now, but for a time, expanding the reach of social networks—making Facebook, Twitter, and others like it as large as possible—was an avowed foreign-policy goal of the United States. That is, at least, what the secretary of state said in the early days of this decade, in a speech at the ...

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Zuckerberg Finds It's Not Easy to Tame Facebook's Growth Obsession

When Mark Zuckerberg isn't responding to the latest scandal engulfing his company, he's actually trying to fix Facebook: He's trying to redirect its obsession with growth—in users and in the time they spend on Facebook—to focus on whether those users have good experiences on the platform.

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Twitter lights up with strong reactions to leaked Facebook memo

The memo, penned by executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth in 2016, puts a premium on getting people to sign up for and use the social network, even if Facebook inadvertently exposes them to bullying or connects terrorists. The memo even had a grim title: "The Ugly." "Maybe it costs a life by exposing ...

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Facebook's mission changed, but its motives didn't

In January, Facebook announced that it would be changing its feed algorithm to promote users' well-being over time spent browsing content. That's a relatively new approach for a company whose ethos once centered around “move fast, break things.” It wasn't all that long ago (approximately a year and ...

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Here's How Facebook or Any Other App Could Use Your Phone's Microphone to Gather Data

If you've ever felt like Facebook or any other app on your phone was listening to your conversations, you're not entirely wrong. While it may seem like Facebook is listening to you, it's highly unlikely the social media network is tracking your every word through your phone's microphone. That would ...

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How Cambridge Analytica's Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person ...

In an email to me, Cambridge University scholar Aleksandr Kogan explained how his statistical model processed Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica. The accuracy he claims suggests it works about as well as established voter-targeting methods based on demographics like race, age and gender.

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Facebook's Troubles Underscore Blockchains' Opportunity

Every action you perform on Facebook—and its sister services like Instagram and WhatsApp—surrenders data to the business' well-oiled surveillance machinery. Maintaining a presence on the social network means granting the company the right to steward—and sell—your personal information to ...

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Internal posts show Facebook workers condemning leakers and fearing 'spies'

While Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, publicly sought to distance himself from the controversial memo, many of his staff, it appears, focused their ire on the leaker, lashing out at disloyalty within the company. The extraordinary messages obtained by tech website the Verge provide a rare window into ...

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The Problem Exposed In Facebook's "The Ugly" Memo Doesn't Have To Happen

“So we connect more people,” said Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth in a June 2016 memo just released on Buzzfeed. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”.

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Controversial Growth Memo Adds to Facebook's Troubles

A newly-leaked memo, pinned in 2016 by one of Facebook's senior executives, added to Facebook's troubles over privacy, data leaks and its role in the presidential election this week. Published by Buzzfeed Thursday, the memo has Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth arguing that questionable ...

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Controversial Facebook Memo Shows Perils of Business Model

Mark Zuckerberg is disavowing a controversial June 2016 memo by a Facebook executive that advocates adding users even with "questionable" practices. The quick rebuke from Zuckerberg, who took days to address Facebook 's (FB) association with political consultant Cambridge Analytica, ...

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Facebook VP's Leaked 2016 Memo Betrays Cult-like Obsession With Growth

The 2016 memo, titled “The Ugly,” was sent to Facebook employees one day after the shooting of a Chicago man (warning: disturbing) was broadcast live on Facebook. It was apparently meant to suggest that Facebook's growth has all kinds of implications, including ugly ones. But that growth, like a ...

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Reaction: Advertisers cautiously optimistic after Facebook says it's pulling third-party targeting data

There are two primary reasons advertisers would redirect budgets from Facebook. Both have to do with performance: either enough users abandon the platform to cripple its scale or the targeting becomes inefficient. Secondary to those concerns are worries about brand safety and branding – see Mozilla ...

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Facebook's Former Employees Open Up About the Data Scandal

As Facebook reels from a public backlash over its handling of user data, former employees are starting to air their hesitations and criticisms of the company they helped build. This week, Bloomberg Technology's Sarah Frier and Aki Ito hear from these former insiders to examine the mistakes that led to ...

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Facebook's removing third-party targeting data: What marketers need to know

Facebook has so-called private audiences from vendors such as Acxiom, Oracle Data Cloud (Datalogix), Epsilon and Experian that advertisers can request through Facebook. In the ads interface, those audiences are categorized under “Partner Categories By Request,” as shown in the example below.

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How Facebook's shutdown of third-party data affects advertisers

Agencies and marketers are scrambling to make sense of the latest Facebook move to drop third-party data. “It's been a busy 12 hours,” said Donnie Williams, chief digital officer at Horizon Media, which has had been fielding clients' questions such as: “Is this a big deal?” “How prepared are we?

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Leaked Facebook memo questions cost of growth

Facebook faces probes on both sides of the Atlantic over the hijacking of 50 million users' personal data by the firm. ... The 2016 memo published by news website Buzzfeed was written by veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bozworth, considered part of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.

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Facebook gathered us all together — and then set a four-alarm dumpster fire

Since the first tiny packets of information passed across the primordial internet, dreamers have imagined what wonders might be possible once everyone is connected to everyone else. Mark Zuckerberg made this his mission with Facebook. Connectivity, Zuckerberg has said, is a basic human right.

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Facebook Sees New Backlash For Leaked Memo Promoting Growth Over Safety

Following weeks of public uproar over its role in the recent Cambridge Analytics 'scandal,' Facebook is now facing fresh ire over an internal memo that seems to prioritize user growth above users' real-life outcomes on the platform. Yesterday, BuzzFeed published an "extraordinary" memo written by ...

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Why the Leaked Facebook Memo Is So Dangerous for Zuckerberg

Each time a fresh scandal plays out at Facebook, the company positions itself as playing catch-up. Apparently alarmed and dismayed at the ready spread of fake news on its platform, Facebook de-emphasized posts from media companies. Faced with a decline in user trust, Facebook admitted it might be ...

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Facebook's terrible month just got even worse

The Facebook executive who penned a 2016 memo claiming the “ugly truth” about the platform's growth was that “maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools” deleted the post Thursday and denied he was serious. The document, published by BuzzFeed Thursday, was originally ...

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'Phenomenally low' trust in Facebook among Aussies even before Cambridge Analytica

AUSTRALIANS flat-out don't trust Facebook anymore, four-in-five users fear their information is being hacked and more than half think Mark Zuckerberg should reimburse them if he's pilfering their personal data for profit. Just 15 per cent of the population are confident Facebook will keep their personal ...

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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook After a Controversial Memo Called for Growth At All Costs

A controversial memo written by a top Facebook insider is causing a ruckus inside and outside the company as it continues to deal with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its handling of users' personal information more broadly. The memo, written by Facebook Vice President Andrew ...

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Here's what Facebook employees are saying about that 'growth at any cost' memo

Facebook employees are reportedly up in arms over a BuzzFeed report detailing a leaked "growth at any cost" memo from Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a vice president at the social network, that was originally published in 2016. Comments from Facebook employees published by the Verge late Thursday ...

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Newly-revealed 2016 internal memo says Facebook growth justified even if it kills someone

This was one that most people at Facebook including myself disagreed with strongly. We've never believed the ends justify the means. We recognize that connecting people isn't enough by itself. We also need to work to bring people closer together. We changed our whole mission and company focus to ...

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A Short History of Facebook's Privacy Gaffes

From Facebook's earliest days, he figured people would eventually grow comfortable sharing everything with everyone—indeed, his business depended on it. Everytime Facebook rolled out a new feature, a subset of us questioned our ability to control who gets to see the personal information we'd been ...

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2016 Facebook memo defends 'ugly' growth strategy, even if it gets people killed

A Facebook Inc. executive wrote a memo in 2016 that said the company's strategy of growth at any cost could have disastrous consequences — even cause deaths — yet still be “justified.” In the leaked memo, published Thursday by Buzzfeed, Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth talked about the ...

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Facebook 'ugly truth' growth memo haunts firm

A Facebook executive's memo that claimed the "ugly truth" was that anything it did to grow was justified has been made public, embarrassing the company. The 2016 post said that this applied even if it meant people might die as a result of bullying or terrorism. Both the author and the company's chief ...

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Facebook and Instagram are 'killing off our memories'

The obsession with taking smartphone photos is causing people to lose their most precious memories, according to new research. Scientists found that people are so distracted by taking pictures, they couldn't actually remember what they had seen. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental ...

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Facebook to simplify privacy controls amid anger over breach

NEW YORK • Facebook will roll out a centralised system for its users to control their privacy and security settings in fewer taps following an outcry over the way it has handled personal data. The system, which will be introduced to Facebook users globally over the coming weeks, will allow people to ...

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Facebook executive defends leaked memo saying growth is good even if 'someone dies in a terror ...

A senior Facebook executive has defended a leaked internal memo in which he appeared to endorse corporate growth even if it came at the expense of user's lives. Vice president Andrew Bosworth wrote in 2016 that the social media giant's reason for existence was connecting people - and it should ...

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Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo

The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook's growth-at-all-costs triggered an emotional conversation at the company today. An internal post reacting to the memo found employees angry and heartbroken that their teammates were sharing internal company ...

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Six words Facebook needs to remember

Like MySpace, Facebook was desperately trying to be a dominant internet platform before it essentially morphed into one of the world's biggest advertisers. Ultimately, it simply managed to successfully navigate that evolution while MySpace didn't. Unlike other emerging social media companies at the ...

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Facebook memo outlines 'ugly truth' behind its mission

A Facebook executive wrote the company must pursue its aim of connecting people using “questionable” practices even if it costs lives, in a 2016 memo leaked in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations. Andrew Bosworth, a vice-president at Facebook who has been there since the early days, ...

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Facebook is defending itself again after an internal memo suggested growth was more important ...

The memo, which was published by BuzzFeed, is from Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, one of Facebook's longest-tenured execs and one of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's closest colleagues. The memo, from 2016, is titled “The Ugly” and highlights that Facebook's work doesn't always have positive outcomes.

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In a leaked memo, Facebook executive describes the consequences of its growth-at-all-costs ...

A leaked memo from a Facebook executive has described the consequences of the company's growth-at-all-costs mentality. BuzzFeed on Thursday published a June 2016 memo by Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, who currently leads the company's hardware division, in which Bosworth says he wants “to talk ...

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Don't Just Delete Facebook — Delete Well

You've gotten a glimpse, by now, of the many ways in which your (seemingly irrelevant) personal data can be harvested by Facebook, and some of the purposes that third parties can find for it. In the interest of privacy, some have concluded that it's high time to quit the network. But by now you might ...

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Ad industry sources slam Facebook's latest privacy move, say it actually consolidates Facebook's ...

Facebook is banning third-party data services from its ad targeting platform within the next six months. This limits the information companies have on purchase history, which is primary way they target customers especially among consumer product goods brands. Some agencies called the decision a ...

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Facebook says it's in 'a really good place' for the 2018 midterm elections

Samidh Chakrabarti, who leads Facebook's work on election security and civic engagement, said that the company has been using elections in other countries as a testing ground for a new investigative tool that proactively searches for "harmful types of election-related activity" like pages from foreign ...

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Why Facebook Faces A Foggy Future

In some ways, Facebook is the most successful firm in history. After only 14 years in operation, it has more users (2.2 billion) than the Catholic Church and is one of the five largest firms on the planet in terms of market capitalization ($442 billion). Evidence suggests that, despite its obvious flaws, people ...

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Facebook's in Your Face, Your Life & Your Wallet - You Knew That, Right?

The Facebook Inc. application is displayed for a photograph on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Facebook is struggling to respond to growing demands from Washington to explain how the personal data of millions of its users could be exploited by a ...

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Our downloaded Facebook profiles are creepy dossiers of half truths

This is how Facebook sees everyone, even if it's not how we see ourselves. The end result of having all this personal data haphazardly siloed in a single advertising company's servers is anyone's guess, but if it turns out to be a million Cambridge Analyticas spooling out over time into infinity, at least ...

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Facebook begins 'fact-checking' photos and videos

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Manipulated photos and videos are ...

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Facebook users join call for regulation, survey finds

A new voice is joining the call for regulating social media sites like Facebook: the users themselves. Most Facebook users say they support some governmental regulation of the use and distribution of personal data on social media, according to a survey conducted exclusively for CNBC by Reconnect ...

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Should Facebook still be working on a mind-reading device?

It sounds pretty cool, in theory: you slide on some sort of headset device, lean back in your favorite recliner, think about sending a Facebook message, and it's sent. Simple. Seconds later, you hear a chime, and think about reading a reply – which promptly pops up on the nearest screen in your visual ...

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Facebook offers plan to tackle fake news ahead of US midterms

Facebook has announced new steps it claims will increase election security and combat fake news, but has declined to say whether the company supports federal legislation to regulate political ads. Company executives told reporters on Thursday that the company was expanding its fact-checking efforts ...

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Facebook Should Beg to Be Regulated

Kevin O'Marah , Contributor I cover supply chain management, technology, and global trade Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Facebook is in serious trouble. It has shed almost a quarter of its market cap since the stock peaked at $190 in late January. Founder and CEO Mark ...

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Cramer: Tim Cook's comments show that the 'long knives' are out for Facebook after data leak

The "long knives" have been drawn for Facebook after a slew of criticism over its data privacy practices, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday. Cramer was particularly surprised by Apple CEO Tim Cook's recent comments about Facebook's data leak. Cook criticized the social media company during an ...

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Delete Facebook? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions First

Facebook is the most important social media platform by far, and that won't change overnight. And yet, I feel your pain. I know the company has made many compromises with data, and we're still waiting for any real changes. Before you delete your account, you might want to ask yourself a few important ...

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Facebook has released a more detailed plan to fight election interference for the 2018 midterms

We'll probably never know, but Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are trying to avoid another instance in the future where that might even be a question. The company published a blog post on Thursday outlining some of the steps it's taking to prevent foreign governments from using Facebook to try ...

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Facebook was informed privacy breach app might sell user data

Facebook was informed that the app at the centre of a massive data leak could sell user data to third parties, according to documents seen by the Financial Times, raising fresh questions about how the company protects its users' data. The social network was sent terms and conditions for the second ...

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Facebook's fall from grace could drag Main Street down with it

Even prior to the scandal breaking, younger users were drifting away from Facebook, according to research from eMarketer, which predicted that the site will lose 2 million users under the age of 25 this year. While some migrated over to Facebook-owned Instagram, others are defecting to rival social ...

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Cambridge Analytica reportedly still hasn't deleted Facebook user data as promised

Portions of the Cambridge Analytica data on as many as 50 million Facebook users may still be out in the wild, according to a report yesterday from the UK's Channel 4 News. The news organization says it has seen a cache of data dating back to the 2014 survey results Cambridge University researcher ...

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This is Facebook's self-defense plan for the 2018 midterm elections

Facebook has a four-part plan to protect its platform from malicious attacks during the 2018 US midterm elections, company executives said today. In a conference call with reporters, representatives from Facebook's security, product, and advertising teams laid out their strategy for preventing the kinds of ...

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Facebook starts fact checking photos/videos, blocks millions of fake accounts per day

Facebook has begun letting partners fact check photos and videos beyond news articles, and proactively review stories before Facebook asks them. Facebook is also now preemptively blocking the creation of millions of fake accounts per day. Facebook revealed this news on a conference call with ...

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Facebook announce new privacy settings in response to #DeleteFacebook backlash

The platform has come under fire this month following the scandal, which has seen the political data firm Cambridge Analytica be accused of harvesting millions of Facebook users' profiles to help target and influence groups of the electorate on social media – particularly during Donald Trump's 2016 ...

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Facebook latest: video issue emerges; firm blocks data brokers; tech workers say they will delete ...

Concerns over Facebook's privacy policies don't appear to be diminishing. Some users taking advantage of the opportunity to download an archive of all the data Facebook holds in their account are discovering a surprise: it includes videos they shot but never posted …

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Here's Cambridge Analytica's plan for voters' Facebook data

More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than ...

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Facebook suspends approval of new third-party apps

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has temporarily suspended approval of new third-party apps. It announced the news on its developer blog, providing an overall update on the measures it's taking "to maintain the trust people place in Facebook". The data used by ...

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Facebook updates privacy controls to let you delete your data

The move comes at a time when Facebook is under scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw a political strategy company get its hands on the data of some 50 million users. However, Facebook said the move was taken in order to comply with the incoming GDPR guidelines, due to ...

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Facebook may have kept the videos you recorded but never pubished

Mark Zuckerberg's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad 2018 keeps getting worse. As people have begun downloading their Facebook data, they've found something unsettling: videos they recorded, but never published on the site. Recently, a Select/All writer's sister was sifting through her data and ...

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Facebook logged SMS texts and phone calls without explicitly notifying users

In at least one previous version of the Messenger app, Facebook only told users that the setting would enable them to “send and receive SMS in Messenger”, and presented the option to users without an obvious way to opt out: the prompt offered a big blue button reading “OK”, and a much smaller grey ...

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Facebook Shuts Down Third-party Ad Partnerships

Some background: There's an enormous industry of companies besides Facebook that harvest user data and then sell it or access to it. They sometimes have freshman-philosophy names like Acxiom or Experian or Epsilon. In addition to Facebook's own targeting mechanisms, high-level operation might ...

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Facebook keeps all of your videos, even if you never publish them

Users downloading their Facebook data are making the surprising discovery that the social media network has been saving copies of every single video they've recorded through the app, even if they were never published. The discovery was made by NY Mag, which saw that one user's downloaded ...

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Facebook fallout spreads with product delay, privacy overhaul

The fallout from Facebook Inc's data privacy scandal is spreading. The social media giant will delay the unveiling of new home products and is redesigning a menu of privacy settings on its network, stepping up its response to public outrage over revelations that it mishandled user data. Facebook's new ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Closes Security Flaws Found By The Tyee

But a Tyee investigation identified three current vulnerabilities that make it easy to for app developers to gather data on the Facebook friends of someone who downloads a quiz or game — the tactic used to collect information on millions of people for Cambridge Analytica. The key to harvesting data on ...

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Will Ferrell says he can 'no longer, in good conscience' use Facebook

Comedian Will Ferrell has joined the small chorus of public figures deleting their Facebook accounts. He said he'd leave the page live for 72 hours in order to let the post circulate. That puts Ferrell's Facebook expiration date around 2 p.m. Friday. Facebook is still reeling from reports that research firm ...

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Apple CEO takes aim at Facebook over privacy

Playboy is leaving Facebook, for good, it says, with the social giant's latest user-privacy scandal the straw that broke the camel's back for the media company. Playboy Enterprises said it will deactivate its accounts on Facebook, which cumulatively have more than 25 million followers. "The recent news ...

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Facebook rolled out privacy changes — but it's being forced to do it anyway by regulators

On March 21, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg spoke out about the scandal in which 50 million Facebook user profiles were harvested with the data being sent to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. He announced some changes including a tool at the top of the News Feed to show users what ...

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Shares of a company that trafficked in personal Facebook data are plunging

Shares of third-party data provider Acxiom fell roughly 11 percent after Facebook announced it was ending that arm of its business. Acxiom lowered its guidance by $25 million as a result. Facebook's announcement was part of an effort to clean up its data collection practices after news that millions of ...

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Facebook Is Making Big Changes to Its Relationship With Data Brokers

Facebook is placing new limits on the data it shares with data brokers—companies like Acxiom and Oracle Data Cloud, which compile dossiers on consumers so as to make it easier for advertisers to target them with appropriate pitches. Relatively few people are aware of how these shadowy companies ...

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Facebook cleans up privacy measures in new update

Facebook has released an update of the measures the brand is going to take, following Mark Zuckerberg's announcement regarding the Cambridge Analytica situation last week. According to a blog post, Facebook would be cracking down on the abuse of the Facebook platform, strengthening its ...

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If Facebook is so smart, why does it keep selling me slippers?

If Big Data is so spookily effective at knowing every aspect of my character, I just have one question: why does Facebook keep trying to sell me £80 slippers? Rare are my visits to Facebook or Instagram that are not rewarded with an advert for what look like overpriced espadrilles. I doubt I have ever ...

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Facebook makes its privacy controls simpler as company faces data reckoning

Facebook on Wednesday sought to make it simpler for people to control how their data is used as a massive privacy scandal continues to shake the company and has caused its stock price to drop by 17 percent in the last two weeks. In the coming months, privacy controls that are now in 20 places on ...

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Facebook to stop allowing data brokers such as Experian to target users

The feature, known as “Partner Categories”, will be “winding down over the next six months”, Facebook announced in a terse blogpost. The company says the move “will help improve people's privacy on Facebook.” Previously, data brokers were able to target specific sets of Facebook users, letting them ...

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Facebook will (soon) yank third-party ad data in the name of privacy

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and rising public pressure against Facebook, the social media giant announced on Wednesday evening that it will restrict how much data advertisers can have access to. Facebook will soon stop allowing advertisers access to data about individuals held ...

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Apple seeks to take advantage of Facebook's woes

Apple is seeking to capitalise on its conservative approach to using customer data amid the online privacy uproar fuelled by the huge leak of Facebook data to Cambridge Analytica. When asked on an upcoming MSNBC television interview what he would do in Mark Zuckerberg's present position, Apple ...

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Facebook whistleblower's startup reportedly had access to data too

A startup business put together by Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who blew the whistle on the Facebook data scandal, reportedly had access in 2014 to the same improperly obtained info on millions of Facebook users that CA had. And that startup, Eunoia Technologies, ...

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Facebook Has Just Updated Privacy Settings, So Here's What You Need to Know

"The last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies, and to help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data," Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer, wrote in the blog post. "We've heard loud and clear that privacy settings and ...

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Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook business chief leans out of spotlight in scandal

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, there has been a glaring lack of leadership from Facebook. Almost five days of silence passed before its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced the public with a post to his Facebook profile and a series of well-rehearsed interviews with handpicked ...

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Facebook will limit data advertisers can use to target ads

Facebook is still determined to reassure jittery users in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, and that now includes restricting what advertisers can do. The social network is closing down a Partner Categories service that let third-party data providers offer their ad targeting directly ...

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Facebook limits how advertisers can target you

The social network on Wednesday said it's ending something called "Partner Categories," which lets advertisers use information from third-party data providers including Experian and Oracle Data Cloud. Facebook partnered with those companies to help advertisers -- in particular, advertisers like small ...

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Facebook is probing reappearance of users' never-posted videos

Facebook's data handling practices are coming under new scrutiny amid reports that users are discovering videos they recorded on the platform but never posted to the site. Facebook has a feature that allows users to download every bit of content you've ever uploaded to the social-networking site, ...

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Facebook turns off ad targeting tool based on third-party data

On Wednesday, Facebook said it would remove ad targeting options that relied on consumer data from third-parties such as Acxiom, Oracle Data Cloud, Experian, Epsilon, and others. These data providers have some of the deepest insights into consumer behavior across the world—information on what ...

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Facebook Could Be Fined Millions for Violating Consent Deal

The FTC is probing how data from 50 million Facebook users was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm that consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, and whether the transfer violated pledges the company made to settle an earlier privacy case. Investigators can ...

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Facebook: Would It Help If We Shared Less User Info With Huge Data Brokers?

The measures, part of which Facebook announced late Wednesday, affect a group of so-called data brokers such as Acxiom Corp. and Oracle Corp.'s Oracle Data Cloud, formerly known as DataLogix, that gather shopping and other information on consumers that Facebook for years has incorporated ...

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Facebook Says It's Rolling Out New Privacy Controls, But I Don't Have Them Yet. (So I Guess We're ...

That's resulted, so far, in a drastic drop in Facebook's stock price and a robust #deletefacbook movement. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg posted replies, Zuck did some interviews, Facebook took out a bunch of full-page newspaper ads--and now they're rolling out these new user-facing tools.

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Facebook will cut off access to third party data for ad targeting

In a surprise change, Facebook will give up one major data source that the company uses to help advertisers target relevant users on the platform. The company just announced that it will end a feature called Partner Categories, launched back in 2013 out of a partnership between Facebook and major ...

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Facebook temporarily blocks new apps from joining its platform

Facebook paused its app review process last week to “implement new changes,” the company quietly announced yesterday. Facebook's move to momentarily prevent new apps and chatbots onto its platform comes after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that's unfolded over the last two ...

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Facebook increases lobbying presence on Capitol Hill before Zuckerberg testimony

The company has listed 12 policy-related job openings based in Washington DC as it faces increased scrutiny over its privacy policies after it was reported that Cambridge Analytica had obtained data from up to 50 million Facebook users. The revelation sparked new concern about the amount of ...

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Don't Just Delete Facebook, Poison Your Data First

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there's a widespread movement for people to #DeleteFacebook. But even when you go through all the steps to wipe your account, the odds are high that Facebook still has deep caches of all your user data, which is can still use. Better than simply deleting ...

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Facebook's Data Scandal Is Reportedly Delaying the Unveiling of its Smart Home Product

The social media giant has reportedly decided to delay the unveiling of its new smart home products. Originally due to be shown at a developer conference in May, the products, connected speakers with digital assistant and video chat capabilities, will be undergoing additional review, reports Bloomberg.

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A Facebook Owned by Users Could Solve a Lot

They told me that Facebook had revolutionized scamming. The company built tools with its trove of user data that made it the go-to platform for big brands. Affiliates hijacked them. Facebook's targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don't need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it ...

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What To Look For in Your Facebook Data—And How to Find It

You've likely heard by now about Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy, Trump-affiliated data analysis firm that reportedly siphoned off information belonging to 50 million Facebook users, according to The Guardian and Observer, along with The New York Times. In the wake of the scandal over Facebook's ...

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Are people really deleting their Facebook accounts? It's complicated

Instead, some people are toying with a social media sabbatical or detox — or just using Facebook less. The prospect of severing that digital lifeline to family and friends and leaving behind an extensive archive of treasured moments is unthinkable, especially when there are few good alternatives apart ...

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Facebook Updated Its Privacy Settings! And It Is a Huge Deal!*

The same changes just made to Facebook's privacy controls would've been necessary anyway if Facebook were to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — the sweeping personal data protection measures the European Union will implement in May. So! Nobody should be ...

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Facebook Is Making It Easier for Users to See Their Data – and Delete It – as Criticism Grows

Facebook Inc. said it will make it more straight-forward for users to change their privacy settings and delete data they've already shared with the social-media company. The announcement is part of Facebook's efforts to answer the firestorm of criticism that's arisen in the wake of revelations that data from ...

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Facebook is rushing out a new design for privacy settings

Facebook announced today (March 28) that is redesigning its privacy controls to make it easier for users to access, alter, and erase the data the social network has stored about them. “Most of these updates have been in the works for some time, but the events of the past several days underscore their ...

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Facebook has overhauled its privacy settings

The social network claims it's taking steps to give people more control over their privacy. The news: Facebook says it's simplifying its privacy menus to make them easier to understand, including extra explanation and providing faster access to many settings. It's also boosting visibility of outdated settings ...

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Other big tech firms could have to face UK lawmakers after Facebook data scandal

Executives from large technology firms could be called to appear in front of British lawmakers as they continue gathering evidence about fake news and data practices, Damian Collins MP told CNBC. Collins said he would not rule out asking more technology firms to give evidence on their data collection ...

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The Facebook Scandal: How Many Cockroaches Are There?

I don't know whether other malfeasance occurred at Facebook that was on a level with the Cambridge Analytica data sharing matter. Right now I would guess there are very few if any who do know. What I can say is that when a scandal breaks, it is often followed later by revelations of more problems.

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Here's How to Download and Delete Your Facebook Data

Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded questions from news outlets about whether he would testify before Congress about Facebook's collection and distribution of user data. Zuckerberg answered that he would be open to the possibility, and on March 27, CNN and other outlets reported ...

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Facebook Fallout Spreads With Product Delay, Privacy Overhaul

Facebook's new hardware products, connected speakers with digital-assistant and video-chat capabilities, are undergoing a deeper review to ensure that they make the right trade-offs regarding user data, according to people familiar with the matter. While the hardware wasn't expected to be available ...

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Facebook to centralise privacy settings

Facebook is trying to make its privacy settings clearer by creating a central hub where users can examine the data they are sharing, in its latest bid to address a privacy scandal that has wiped billions of dollars off its stock market valuation, reports Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco. The world's largest ...

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Facebook tweaks privacy tools to ease discontent over data leak

The data leak has raised investor concerns that any failure by big tech companies to protect privacy could deter advertisers - Facebook's lifeblood - and lead to tougher regulation. Analysts said the revamps Facebook rolled out on Wednesday looked more like tweaks than big changes, making data ...

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Don't bother trying to quit Facebook – it's too late and you won't change anything

I respect anyone who took the decision to abandon Facebook this month in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that engulfed the social media giant. Killing off your online avatar is commendable, especially as so many of us rely on the omniscient platform to design everything from our social ...

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Privacy fears force Facebook to delay home camera

The device was due to rival voice assistant speakers such as Amazon's Echo and the Google Home and was expected to be revealed at Facebook's F8 developer conference in May, but has been put on pause with a launch date expected later this year. The new hardware, known only as Portal, ...

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Facebook Changes Privacy Controls As Criticism Escalates

Facebook responded to intensifying criticism over its mishandling of user data Wednesday by adding features to its site that give users more visibility and control over how their information is shared. The changes also enable users to prevent the social network from sharing that information with ...

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Playboy Deletes Facebook Pages, Citing User-Data Scandal and 'Sexually Repressive' Policies

Playboy is leaving Facebook — for good, it says — with the social giant's latest user-privacy scandal the straw that broke the camel's back for the media company. Playboy Enterprises said it will deactivate its accounts on Facebook, which cumulatively have more than 25 million followers. “The recent ...

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Gene Munster: Facebook stock could be 'stuck in the mud' for up to a year

Advertisers for the first time must now decide whether putting content on Facebook represents a liability, tech analyst-turned-venture capitalist Gene Munster told CNBC on Wednesday. "I don't think there's going to be some huge aversion from Instagram or Facebook. I think that those platforms are going ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned again by UK lawmakers to give evidence on data ...

U.K. lawmaker Damian Collins wrote another letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him if he will appear in front of a parliamentary committee. Collins chairs the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, is running an inquiry into fake news and is probing the Cambridge Analytica data ...

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Facebook to Update Privacy Controls, Making It Easier for Users to Delete Their Data

Facebook, still scrambling to respond to the user-privacy scandal that has blown up in the last two weeks, announced a series of updates to its privacy tools designed to calm users' fears. The social-media giant promises to make privacy settings easier to find and use. The updates, which Facebook said ...

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As Tech Titans Continue To Face Questions, Facebook Has Likely Peaked

A picture taken in Moscow on March 22, 2018 shows an illustration picture of the English language version of Facebook about page featuring the face of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. A public apology by Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, on March 22, 2018 failed to quell outrage over the hijacking ...

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Facebook is making it easier to delete your data

In the wake of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook is reminding folks to check on their privacy settings for the social network. "Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce out policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over the data," a blog ...

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Facebook Says It's Putting All Your Privacy Settings in One Place, Which It Was Going to Do ...

Facebook has been playing a shell game with your privacy for years, but now it says it will put all of the settings that control your data under one shell. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which Facebook lost control of 50 million users' personal data, the social media company's stock price ...

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Facebook makes its privacy tools easier to find

Facebook today announced it has overhauled its privacy tools, consolidating some into a single screen, and making others vastly easier to access. Previously, Facebook's privacy settings on mobile were spread across 20 different screens. Now, users just have to head to one place. The company has ...

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Facebook accused of failing to tackle discrimination in housing ads

Facebook vowed to fight the lawsuit, which it said was “without merit”. The tech giant has ballooned into a $440bn advertising behemoth thanks in large part to the ease by which it allows advertisers to target specific audiences. The company transmogrifies every like, status update and mouse click into a ...

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Facebook to give users more control over personal information

Facebook is giving users more control over their privacy by making data management easier and redesigning the settings menu, the company. The changes come in the wake of a scandal over a breach that exposed the personal information of millions and was allegedly used by a political consultancy.

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Facebook makes its privacy, data downloading and deletion settings easier to find

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data ...

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Facebook to change privacy controls in wake of data scandal

“The last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies, and to help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data,” Erin Egan, Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer, and Ashlie Beringer, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at ...

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Facebook sued for allegedly allowing housing advertisers to discriminate

Have you ever posted photos on Facebook of your kids at soccer practice? Have you talked about being a stay-at-home mom, the single parent of a toddler, or a disabled veteran? Have you ever “liked” Telemundo or written about learning English as a second language? If any of the above are true, ...

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Facebook responds to privacy crisis by making privacy tools easier to find

Facebook adjusted its privacy settings page today, following the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Most obviously, the privacy settings page now features shortcuts with images to make it easier to navigate, particularly on mobile. Users can enable two-factor authentication, control what they ...

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Facebook Just Revealed 3 Major Changes to Its Privacy Settings

The priority, Facebook said, is making its privacy settings more accessible and providing clearer explanations about how data tools are used. The changes come as the #DeleteFacebook movement grows and various companies distance themselves from the social media platform after it was revealed ...

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Playboy Deletes Facebook Pages Citing Both Election Meddling and Sexual Repression

When Playboy was founded in 1953, conservatives were up in arms about the way that it contradicted traditional “American values.” But how times have changed. Playboy has become the latest brand to delete its Facebook pages, claiming that Facebook is both “sexually repressive” and contradicts ...

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Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns

The announcement is part of Facebook's efforts to answer the firestorm of criticism that's arisen in the wake of revelations that data from 50 million people was accessed by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica without their permission. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify in ...

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Facebook reportedly pauses smart speaker plans for obvious reasons

Even though it seems like everyone is selling some sort of smart speaker, Bloomberg reports that Facebook will not be the next company joining in and has scuttled plans for a reveal at its F8 developer event. Despite earlier rumors of a device that would compete with the likes of Echo, Home, and ...

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Facebook is making its privacy settings easier to find

Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to give people better control of their privacy settings and data. The company's redesigned security settings let people control what personal information the social network and third-party apps keeps. Facebook used to display security tools and settings across ...

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Facebook announces privacy tools to 'put people in more control' of data

Facebook is launching a range of new tools in an effort to “put people in more control over their privacy” in the buildup to new EU regulations that tighten up data protection. The changes come after a troubling two weeks for the company, which is battling with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files.

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Facebook privacy settings revamped after scandal

Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds. Details of the changes were announced in a blog. They follow intense criticism of the firm after it emerged that data about 50 million users had been harvested and ...

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Facebook unveils new privacy tools to let you control your data better

Facebook unveiled new tools Wednesday to make it easier for users to see and access the data the social network holds on them. The company is aiming to regain trust after a backlash from users over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. New features include a redesigned settings menu on mobile ...

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Facebook is making it easier to see all the personal data it collects about you

One of the issues with the way that tech companies like Facebook collect personal data from people is that they often make it hard for those people to understand what they're collecting, and how to control it. So in the wake of the company's recent Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle, Facebook is trying ...

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Facebook Will Make It Easier for You to Control Your Personal Data

Facebook will let users download more of their information than before, so they can see and manage the personal data they've shared with Facebook (including new categories such as likes, comments, reactions, search history, and location history), and transfer it to another service, if they choose.

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Playboy Latest to Delete Facebook Amid Data Handling Fallout

Playboy follows other users and companies joining the wider #DeleteFacebook movement -- Billionaire Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. have scrapped their accounts. WhatsApp founder Brian Acton tweeted the hashtag on March 20. Facebook has owned WhatsApp ...

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Facebook to give users more control over personal information

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) is giving users more control over their privacy by making data management easier and redesigning the settings menu, the company said on Wednesday, in the wake of a scandal over a breach that exposed the personal information of millions and was allegedly used by a ...

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Facebook will help users delete some of their personal information to stem #DeleteFacebook ...

The redesigned menus, rolled out in “the coming weeks,” will stop short of spelling out what information Facebook is actually collecting from its users, however, and will come as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifies before US Congress about the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw the personal ...

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Facebook Introduces Central Page for Privacy and Security Settings

From the new page, users can control the personal information the social network keeps on them, such as their political preferences or interests, and download and review a file of data Facebook has collected about them. Facebook also will clarify what types of apps people are currently using and what ...

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Three Facebook users sue over collection of call, text history

A Facebook representative could not immediately be reached for comment. Facebook, which is reeling from a scandal over its handling of personal data, on Sunday acknowledged that it had been logging some users' call and text history but said it had done so only when users of the Android operating ...

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Playboy suspends activity on Facebook in wake of the data scandal

Playboy said Wednesday that it would be exiting Facebook and deactivating each of its accounts. Cooper Hefner, Playboy's chief creative officer and son of the late Hugh Hefner, called Facebook "sexually repressive." Calls to delete Facebook have taken momentum in the wake of the data sharing ...

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“They're Certainly Not Prepared”: What's Next for Facebook After Zuckerberg's Mea Culpa Tour

When Harvard-aged Mark Zuckerberg bragged to a friend over instant messenger that he'd obtained “over 4,000 e-mails, pictures, addresses” thanks to the “dumb fucks” among his peers who had submitted them, he may not have known that such data stores would one day become Facebook's bread ...

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Mozilla introduce Firefox plug-in that blocks Facebook from stealing your information

Mozilla had been working on the “Facebook Container” add-on for Firefox for a number of years, but accelerated development in the wake of 50 million profiles having private information harvested from the social media platform. “Facebook has a network of trackers on various websites. This code tracks ...

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In Just a Few Painful, Embarrassing Minutes, Facebook Showed Just How Arrogant It Is

The country's Home Affairs and Law Minister, K. Shanmugam, asks Facebook's vice-president of public policy for Asia-Pacific, Simon Milner, a seemingly apposite question about how Facebook executives have answered previous criticisms of its ways in the UK parliament. Milner gets up on his high ...

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Facebook: Yeah, Maybe Now Isn't the Best Time to Launch Our New Speaker Designed to Spy on ...

Facebook “has decided not to unveil” its line of connected home speakers, which boast digital assistant and video-chat capabilities, at its developer conference in May because too many people have wised up to the fact said products will probably turn their homes into Mark Zuckerberg-surveilled ...

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Playboy deletes its Facebook accounts

Playboy issued a press release late Tuesday night to announce its withdrawal from Facebook. It has deactivated the Playboy accounts that Playboy Enterprises manages directly affecting some 25 million fans, according to the company. Playboy becomes the latest company to join the call to ...

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The benefit of being 112 on Facebook

It is to be hoped that John Rothenstein's diary (Report, 26 March) will also tell how he persistently refused the gift to the Tate, from the German-Jewish art historian Rose Schapire in gratitude for her safety in Britain, of a collection of German Expressionist paintings, pre-eminently by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

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Mark Zuckerberg agrees to testify before Congress over data scandal

However, news of US congressional evidence paves the way for a major showdown for Zuckerberg, 33, who has come under increasing pressure from lawmakers and the general public to account for Facebook's business practices since the company acknowledged last September that it had sold ...

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It's been a week since I quit Facebook. It feels like liberation

The beginning of the end had come a year or so earlier when I deleted the Facebook app from my phone (yes, I reinstalled it; I'll deal with the addiction shortly) because I felt it had become an unhealthy compulsion – somewhere between not being able to stop eating one of those huge buckets of ...

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Wylie: It's possible that the Facebook app is listening to you

But, Wylie said in a meandering reply, it's possible that Facebook and other smartphone apps are listening in for reasons other than speech recognition. Specifically, he said, they might be trying to ascertain what type of environment a user is in in order to “improve the contextual value of the advertising ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg under pressure to testify to UK lawmakers

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is facing renewed calls to give evidence to UK lawmakers, after the whistleblower at the heart of a major privacy scandal that has wiped more than $60bn off the company's market valuation made a series of new allegations on Tuesday. Chris Wylie, a former ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg Said to Agree to Testify Before Congress Over Data Privacy

Mr. Zuckerberg has been under pressure to appear before Congress as Facebook confronts a controversy over data privacy after Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, improperly harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users. The revelations have sparked a furor on both sides of the ...

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Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The scandal so far

On March 17, the London Observer and The New York Times reported that UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica acquired millions of Facebook users' personal information to build software that could target potential swing voters in political campaigns, including US President Donald Trump's 2016 ...

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You Don't Need To Delete Facebook — Just Change The Way You Use It

But the call to simply abandon Facebook leans on the assumption that disentangling yourself after years of engagement is a simple task. For many users — myself included — it isn't. And suggestions that Twitter, the phone, or email could serve as an appropriate replacement to the expansive social ...

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How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans' Facebook Data

Facebook has been rocked by reports of a massive data scrape carried out by Cambridge Analytica and one of its then-contractors, a Cambridge University academic named Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan claims that the data he collected from thousands of Facebook users and their friends—amounting to ...

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What Is Amazing About The Facebook Cambridge Analytic Story

In 2014, Cambridge University lecturer Aleksandr Kogan formed UK company, Global Science Research (GSR), developed a Facebook app involving a personality questionnaire, got Facebook users to use the app, and in the process scraped up their personal Facebook details and that of all of their ...

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Commentary: How Facebook's Response Ignited the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Unfortunately for Facebook's shareholders, it appears Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the company's other leaders did not understand this basic rule of crisis management when handling the Cambridge Analytica scandal. For my 2017 book, Chief Crisis Officer: Structure and Leadership for ...

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What lies beneath: The things Facebook knows go beyond user data

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its data-collection practices by the Federal Trade Commission. In a statement issued on March 26, FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Acting Director ...

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Here's how to find out what Facebook knows about you

The question gained a little more urgency over the weekend when Facebook acknowledged that its Android app had been collecting call and text histories from phones running Google's Android system in 2015 — first via its Messenger app and later through an option in Facebook Lite, a stripped-down ...

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