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Facebook Imported 1.5 Million Users' Email Contacts Without Permission
Facebook admitted to uploading the email address books of 1.5 million users, which may have included the email contacts of hundreds of millions of people.
Russian Fines Facebook $50 for Not Storing Citizen Data on Russian Servers
A court in Moscow issued a $50 fine to Facebook for violating a data privacy law that requires information about Russian users to be kept on servers in Russia.
Unsecured Amazon Cloud Storage Leaked Facebook User Data for Months
UpGuard revealed that information about 540 million Facebook users gathered by Cultura Colectiva was publicly accessible via an unprotected Amazon S3 bucket.
US Regulator Accuses Facebook of 'Causing Housing Discrimination'
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing marketers to target ads.
Facebook Employees Had Access to Up to 600 Million Passwords
Facebook confirmed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stored in plain text, but denied that its employees improperly accessed them.
Myspace Lost 13 Years Worth of Data and Basically Nobody Cared
Myspace lost "any photos, videos, and audio files" its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 as the result of a failed server migration project.
Facebook Uses Two-Factor Authentication Phone Numbers to Help Users Find You
Despite saying phone numbers used for 2FA wouldn't be used for anything else, Facebook actually uses those numbers to help people find their friends' accounts.
Facebook Is Working On Its Own Semiconductor Design - Report
Facebook's chief AI researcher told Bloomberg the company is working on a semiconductor design made specifically to handle the mass amounts of data used by AI.
