Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself

Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as "What was your first job," or "What was your first car?" The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be...

How to Delete Your Facebook Account Permanently – 2018 Guide

By Waqas If you are looking for how to delete your Facebook This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Delete Your Facebook Account Permanently - 2018 Guide...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans user private messages

By Waqas If you thought your conversations on Facebook Messenger are private This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans user private messages...

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that "malicious actors" took advantage of "Search" too...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...

How to delete your Facebook data in bulk with this Chrome extension

By Waqas If you are planning to delete your Facebook account it This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to delete your Facebook data in bulk with this Chrome extension...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions From Chrome Web Store

In an effort to prevent cryptojacking by extensions that maliciously mine digital currencies without users' awareness, Google has implemented a new Web Store policy that bans any Chrome extension submitted to the Web Store that mines cryptocurrency. Over the past few months, we have seen a sudden...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our photos, things we type and delete without posting, and things we do while not on Facebook and even when...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data

As you may already know, there's been a security meltdown at Facebook, thanks to a company called Cambridge Analytica and Donald Trump. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists it wasn't a breach, which is technically true. But that doesn't change the fact that the data of 50 million users was obtain...

Facebook Woes Continue as FTC Opens Data Privacy Probe

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it is launching an investigation into Facebook’s data privacy practices. The announcement is another kick to Facebook, which has been grappling with the fallout from a scandal where data from the social media platform leaked through a third-party...

Facebook collected users’ call and SMS logs with “their permission”

By Waqas Facebook is in hot waters for the last couple of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook collected users' call and SMS logs with "their permission"...

Facebook Collected Your Android Call History and SMS Data For Years

Facebook knows a lot about you, your likes and dislikes—it's no surprise. But do you know, if you have installed Facebook Messenger app on your Android device, there are chances that the company had been collecting your contacts, SMS, and call history data at least until late last year. A tweet...

Elon Musk deletes Tesla & Space X Facebook pages for #DeleteFacebook

By Waqas Elon Musk has deleted the official Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla this Friday after This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Elon Musk deletes Tesla & Space X Facebook pages for DeleteFacebook...

Zeynep Tufekci on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Zeynep Tufekci is particularly cogent about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Several news outlets asked me to write about this issue. I didn't, because 1 my book manuscript is due on Monday finally!, and 2 I knew Zeynep would say what I would say, only better...

On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1

By Waqas Recently we reported about a massive data breach scandal that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat. Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by Briti...

WhatsApp Co-Founder Urges Users to Delete Their Facebook Accounts

By Carolina Brian Acton, co-founder of popular messaging app WhatsApp wants each This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Co-Founder Urges Users to Delete Their Facebook Accounts...

Facebook CEO Vows to ‘Step Up’ After Cambridge Analytica ‘Mistakes’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica debacle that has unfolded over the past week, admitting “we made mistakes”. He vowed to step up to the plate when it comes to delivering better data security to Facebook users. “We have a responsibility to...