The IT Nerd

So from the “another reason not to trust Facebook” file comes the news that Facebook has fessed up to harvesting email contacts from 1.5 million people without permission since May 2016.

A security researcher who goes by the name e-sushi on Twitter, first noticed that the company was asking some new users to enter their email passwords to verify their identities. From a security standpoint that’s a total #Fail. Business Insider then spotted that if you did this a dialogue box popped up warning you with no chance to cancel, pause or opt out that it was importing all your contacts. That is a total #EpicFail. Since being brought to light, Facebook has now admitted that the emails were collected, analysed, used for ad targeting and to push its add-a-friend feature. But it was all by accident they claim. And it is notifying users and deleting the illegally collected details. So no harm, no foul. Right?

I’m sorry but I am running out of ways to express just how untrustworthy this company truly is. Example after example of bad behavior just keeps coming to light, which in turn illustrates that every human on Earth needs to avoid having anything to do with Facebook. Not only that, but I’ll say again that governments worldwide need to not only punish Facebook for this bad behavior, but they need to severely restrict how this company does business because it simply is out of control and it needs oversight by a third party given how untrustworthy they have proven themselves to be.

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