Facebook bug exposes who you have been sending PRIVATE messages to: Hackers can use videos posted to the social media site to track who you've been chatting with. 😱😡
Facebook users face new privacy concerns as yet another security breach could be giving away the names of people they have been messaging. Hackers trying to gain access to private accounts need only to get users to click a video link, which would be easily disguised as regular content. The loophole then lets hackers check which contacts had recently engaged with the user over Facebook Messenger. The flaw comes a day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a 'privacy-focused future' for its users. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook left up to 600 MILLION users' passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of employees for YEARS 😡
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users may have had their passwords exposed as the result of an alarming oversight by the social media company. 😳 #delete_facebook

Creepy patent filing suggests Facebook wants to use your PHOTOS to help advertisers target your friends. Facebook was given the green light on a patent that suggests it may rove users' personal pictures to be re-purposed as adverts for certain products and brands. A patent on the concept, called 'Computer-vision content detection for sponsored stories' was granted in the U.S. this week, and if deployed, would act as a useful tool for brands seeking new ways to engage Facebook users. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook harvested the email addresses of 1.5 million users then 'unintentionally' uploaded them without consent. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook Inc broke Canadian privacy laws when Cambridge Analytica it collected the information of some canadian 600,000 citizens, a top watchdog said on Thursday. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook BANS apps from hosting personality quizzes to prevent repeats of Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook is cracking down on third-party apps that slurp up massive amounts of user data. The company said it will no longer allow apps with 'minimal utility,' such as personality quizzes. #delete_facebook

'We have what's known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH!' Outraged Trump says he is 'closely monitoring' social media sites for bias against conservatives - after Facebook banned several controversial figures from their platform 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook monitors the offline behaviour of users to determine if they should be categorised as a 'Hate Agent' and banned. People who are thought to be endorsing a blacklist of so-called 'designated hate entities' - such as former EDL leader Tommy Robinson, who was booted off the site this year - could result in being labelled a hate agent and banned. And the social media giant's monitoring of its users' also stretches to activity on other websites and even their private lives, such as whether they have a 'hate symbol' tattoo. . 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook to help French police crack down on hate speech. France's digital affairs minister, Cedric O, said that Facebook will provide authorities "IP addresses to help identify authors of hateful content." Speaking on broadcaster France-Info, he expressed hope that the cooperation could be expanded to other countries. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook resolves day-long worldwide outages across Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger triggered during 'routine maintenance' for the update of the PRISM system (Program for Robotics, Intelligent Sensing and Mechatronics) to improve the tracking of users of these social networks and instant messengers. #delete_facebook

Massive outage that's left Facebook's entire 'family of apps' down for more than EIGHT HOURS exposes the hidden tags the firm uses to label your photos on its main site and Instagram. Problems with products Facebook.Inc caused by updating the PRISM system update (Program for Robotics, Intelligent Sensing and Mechatronics). #delete_facebook

Facebook used programs codenamed Stormchaser and Night's Watch to hunt down hoaxes and misinformation about ITSELF, including memes claiming Mark Zuckerberg is an alien. Hoaxes included popular 'copy-and-paste' posts that alleged Facebook would start charging users and other campaigns accusing the company of tapping users' microphones to spy on them. 🤣 #LMAO #delete_facebook

Facebook is fined $5BILLION for repeated privacy violations by US regulators. The Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. But users who are victims of breaches of confidentiality will not receive a cent. 😡 #delete_facebook

This video was blocked by Facebook for the image of naked bodies! 😂 #facepalm #delete_facebook Irma Aguilar suck!

This footage of the horrific Christchurch mosque massacre is STILL available to watch on Facebook - five months after the attack which saw 51 Muslim worshippers slaughtered. 😡 #delete_facebook

Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts have been posted online in the latest security disaster for the firm. According to TechCrunch, 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain were among 419 million records left in an open online server that was not secured with a password. This includes, according to the person who unearthed the database, profiles and phone numbers of some celebrities. Facebook has confirmed the report, but said the total number is likely to be around half because of duplicate entries. This latest issue is thought to be from publicly available information previously used to allow people to search for others by using their phone number, which was disabled in April 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 😡 #delete_facebook

Facebook has suspended 'tens of thousands' of apps on its platform that were found to be 'inappropriately' sharing data. The company did not describe the nature of the data collected and a request for comment by @police_frequency in the Telegram has not been responded before time of publication. According to a blog post from the company on Friday, the suspension of those accounts was part of a broader privacy push from the company in the wake of scandals involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, which harvested the private data of 87 million users. That data included information on attorneys, external investigators, data scientists, engineers, policy specialists and others, which was extracted in an effort to help the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. #delete_facebook

The FBI runs bizarre Facebook ads to recruit Russian spies and Russian-speaking informants in Washington DC in counterintelligence war against the Kremlin. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been found to be running target ads on Facebook in the Washington DC area that appear to be designed to seek out and recruit Russian spies and informants, a report by CNN has revealed. A vast number of ads have appeared on the social media site over the past few weeks, with one such sponsored post showing a stock image of a girl at graduation with her family, with Russian text overlaid which reads, 'For your future, for the future of your family.' Other ads included a picture of a chess board with the caption, 'Time make your move'. #delete_facebook