How To Check If You Were Part Of The Recent Facebook Data Leak
The data of 533 million Facebook users have been leaked. On the plus side, checking if you were one of those only takes a minute.
Facebook To Pay Millions of Users $5 Each, Or Nothing At All
A huge number of American Facebook users received an email recently that they probably deleted imagining it came from a cash-strapped Nigerian Prince, but the email promising them $10 was real.
Facebook Privacy Settings FAIL – Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Family Leaked [PIC]
Randi Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg. She is also the social network’s former marketing director. But on Christmas Day she got burned by Facebook’s privacy settings just like the rest of us.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Facebook Photos Leaked [PICS]
How do you like them apples? Thanks to a technical glitch, never before seen photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have leaked online. His longtime girlfriend, his dog, and Barack Obama also feature in them. A Facebook user reportedly exploited a security loophole and accessed them.
Facebook Admits It Was Constantly Tracking Users, Calls It “Inadvertent” Error
Facebook has finally admitted that it has been watching the web pages its 750 million members visit. The huge privacy breach was simply a mistake, it says. Software that automatically downloaded to users’ computers when they logged in to Facebook “inadvertently” sent information to the company, whether you were logged in or not.
Facebook Is Watching You Very Closely, Even After You Logout
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that an Australian technologist, Nik Cubrilovic, has discovered that Facebook is tracking the websites its users visit even when they have logged out of the social networking site. Reactions have been mixed, but is this something we should be that surprised about?