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JAB
Apr 26, 2019, 1:34:19 PM4/26/19
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Facebook’s latest privacy scandals open regulator floodgates
Storing passwords in plain text and harvesting email contacts have
landed the firm in hot water -- again.
Facebook's damage control teams must be busy these days with data
scandal after scandal appearing out of the woodwork on what seems to
be a monthly basis -- all of which are gaining the interest of
regulators worldwide.
The Cambridge Analytica incident seemed to be only the tip of the
iceberg, with the most recent examples of Facebook's failure to
adequately protect and store user data is highlighted by the harvest
of email contact data and the storage of millions of user passwords in
plain text.
Data protection is now a hot topic and one that Europe has taken more
seriously with the revamp of old data and security rules through the
implementation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Under these rules, companies operating in European countries are held
to a high standard when it comes to consumer data storage and security
-- and this is an area Irish regulators are now examining to see if
Facebook has fallen short.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebooks-latest-privacy-scandals-opens-regulator-floodgates/
Storing passwords in plain text and harvesting email contacts have
landed the firm in hot water -- again.
Facebook's damage control teams must be busy these days with data
scandal after scandal appearing out of the woodwork on what seems to
be a monthly basis -- all of which are gaining the interest of
regulators worldwide.
The Cambridge Analytica incident seemed to be only the tip of the
iceberg, with the most recent examples of Facebook's failure to
adequately protect and store user data is highlighted by the harvest
of email contact data and the storage of millions of user passwords in
plain text.
Data protection is now a hot topic and one that Europe has taken more
seriously with the revamp of old data and security rules through the
implementation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Under these rules, companies operating in European countries are held
to a high standard when it comes to consumer data storage and security
-- and this is an area Irish regulators are now examining to see if
Facebook has fallen short.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebooks-latest-privacy-scandals-opens-regulator-floodgates/
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