Facebook is responding to recent news that data from 533 million accounts leaked online for free, but perhaps not in the way users might have hoped: the company does not intend to notify users whose data has been exposed online no, a Facebook spokesman said. Reuters.
There are apparently a lot of information in the dataset that you do not want to drive on the internet – including birthdays, locations, full names and phone numbers – so it’s disappointing to hear that Facebook does not intend to notify users who may be affected to set. . The company mentioned two reasons Reuters why it does not tell users proactively: it says it does not trust that they will know which users should be notified, and that users will be unable to do the data online.
On Tuesday, Facebook wrote on its blog that it believes the data was deleted some time before September 2019 via its contact importer, a method that violates the company’s policies. But if BuzzFeed News reporter Ryan Mac points out, this is not entirely consistent with the fact that the company did not speak out or filed lawsuits against the controversial surveillance company Clearview AI to scrape photos from Instagram and Facebook.
Over the past year, I have asked Facebook more than a dozen times if he would take legal action against Clearview AI to scrape millions of photos from Instagram and Facebook. No lawsuits have been filed and FB has not recorded anything. Https://t.co/htkKCD5bT0
– Ryan Mac (@ RMac18) 7 April 2021
Facebook says it has ‘made changes to the contact importer’ to stop the scraping.
If you are concerned about whether or not your data was included in the data dump, and do not want to wait to see if Facebook intends to notify users, you can visit our guide to see if you are affected . Read more about the dataset and the lack of transparency of Facebook Wired’s piece about the inconsistent messages of the company.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.