FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company's data handling and potential antitrust action.
The revelation comes after a security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking some users to enter their email passwords when they signed up for new accounts to verify their identities, in a move widely condemned by security experts., a message popped up saying it was"importing" your contacts, without asking for permission first.
Facebook says that prior to May 2016, it offered an option to verify a user's account and voluntarily upload their contacts at the same time. However, Facebook says, it changed the feature, and the text informing users that their contacts would be uploaded was deleted — but the underlying functionality was not. Facebook didn't access the contact of users' emails, the spokesperson added.
Luckily deleted my account far ago
techinsider LinkedIn flying under the radar here too... Every time I log on I see a full and comprehensive list of all my email contacts... Appearing before my eyes. No I did not consent to bots crawling my inbox.
Isn’t that just convenient?
'Unintentionally' really ?
Thankfully I’m not on this crappy website
FedorsBlog The best thing is to KEEP OFF Facebook altogether
SAI
wonderful.
Unintentionally? FB must be penalized for invasion of privacy and misuse of data.
So when are we going to stop saying they do anything unintentional? I mean it says 'send'. Is this opposite day? Oh I didn't mean to trip you but I did stick my foot out hoping you walked by....
please explain to me. I am a stupid computer scientist
can't he redact 'em
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