More shoddy data handling practices have been exposed at the world’s biggest social networking platform.
Facebook has a long, long record of privacy fails and data scandals, but even by its standards the latest one is a jaw-dropper: the platform has revealed up to 1.5 million Facebook users might have had their email contacts unknowingly uploaded to the site.
The process was unintentional – according to Facebook – and happened when users were prompted for their password as part of a security verification process. It’s been going on since May 2016 but Facebook says its now deleting all the scraped data.
On top of that, the shoddy password storage techniques used by Facebook that we reported on last month have in fact affected millions of Instagram users – not the “tens of thousands” that Facebook initially said.
