Facebook Suit Reveals Ukrainian Hackers Used Quizzes to Take Data from 60,000 Users The company revealed the latest in a long line of breaches in a suit filed late Friday March 8, 2019 https://www.thedailybeast.com/faceb...uizzes-to-take-data-from-60000-users?ref=home
AP Explains: What Facebook’s ‘privacy vision’ really means March 10, 2019 https://apnews.com/42f9a3ede42f41ea838e48859b2b9ab7
Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor says privacy manifesto is a PR stunt March 10, 2019 https://mashable.com/article/roger-mcnamee-criticizes-mark-zuckerberg-privacy-manifesto-sxsw/
"Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage... The massively popular social network started having problems at around noon Eastern time, with issues popping up across Facebook proper, Facebook Messenger and Instagram around the world. Some users of Facebook-owned WhatsApp reported having issues sending photos on the popular messaging app... Downdetector.com, which monitors websites, showed the company experiencing issues across a large portion of the U.S. and Europe in addition to reported problems in parts of South America, Asia and Australia... It is not immediately clear what caused Wednesday's issue. In a tweet at 3:03 p.m. ET the company reiterated that it is still working on a fix. Facebook also confirmed that the outage was not the result of any distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack..." https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...ss-united-states-apparent-outage/3151883002/? Our Sympathies
Facebook still down. "Facebook suffers the most severe outage in its history Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday. The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn monthly users today. Facebook's main product, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected. The cause of the interruption has not yet been made public..." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47562281
"Facebook outage blamed on routing issue An outage that kept many people from accessing Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday was caused by a particular type of routing issue known as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) leak, according to network management firm Netscout..." https://www.axios.com/facebook-outa...sue-5a474146-3bd7-4ab8-9d34-6cb540c8da9a.html
"Facebook and Instagram are running again following an EIGHT HOUR outage affecting users worldwide... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...HT-HOUR-outage-affecting-users-worldwide.html
Facebook won’t store data in countries with human rights violations — except Singapore March 13, 2019 https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/facebook-singapore-human-rights/
Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage March 14, 2019 https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/telegram-gets-3m-new-signups-during-facebook-apps-outage/
"Facebook agrees to overhaul targeted advertising system for job, housing and loan ads after discrimination complaints Facebook on Tuesday agreed to overhaul its lucrative targeted advertising system to settle accusations that landlords, lenders and employers use the platform to discriminate. The far-reaching settlement compels Facebook to withhold a wide array of detailed demographic information — including Zip codes, gender and age — from advertisers when they market housing, credit and job opportunities... Civil rights advocates have warned for years that Facebook’s ads violated anti-discrimination laws because advertisers were able to use that data to exclude African Americans, women, seniors, people with disabilities and others..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...61983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.0403fb3e86ce
Facebook Succeeded In Killing Cybersecurity Like It Did Privacy March 23, 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevl...in-killing-cybersecurity-like-it-did-privacy/
Former Facebook exec: ‘Zuckerberg is sitting on more data about what people want to do online than anyone else in the world’
