what a more privacy-aware internet could look like
Facebook is exploring a bunch of ways to allow businesses to offer customers a more ‘personalized’ experience on its platform without necessarily targeting them with personalized ads.
Facebook Could Be Reading Your WhatsApp Messages
Facebook is not sifting through all your WhatsApp messages. Your information likely remains obscure to Facebook and its contractors. But the question is whether the access to allegedly abusive messages will be misused and whether Facebook, which touts end-to-end encryption on its messaging service, has been transparent with users about its ability to review what they send.
Facebook Is Reckless with Your Data. It’s Time to Take It Back
When Facebook learned that the phone numbers, names, locations, and birthdays of more than 500M users had been posted on a public hacking forum, it might have notified each of those users and gotten to work on preventing a similar event from happening again. But Facebook, know that the leaked data could lead to identity theft and other cybersecurity schemes, reportedly took the opposite approach.