Shocker! Facebook improperly stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text
Over the past few years, Facebook hasn’t done much to convince users that it takes user privacy as seriously as it should. Indeed, it seems …
Facebook made him a billionaire, but WhatsApp’s cofounder insists you should delete Facebook
About a year ago, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton posted a brief message on Twitter telling people that it was time to #deletefacebook. At the time, …
Facebook confirms a server problem was behind its worst outage ever
Facebook just can’t catch a break. The target of myriad investigations, scandals and user ire that’s led to a steady migration away from the main …
Facebook briefly removed Elizabeth Warren’s ads that said Facebook has too much power
Facebook inadvertently helped Senator Elizabeth Warren’s new campaign by taking down a Warren add that said Facebook has too much power. Unsurprisingly, Facebook’s move made …
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has an escape hatch in his office in case of emergency
It’s a strange world we live in when tech CEOs need stringent security protection, but that’s sadly the state of affairs these days. Notably, Facebook …
Some Android apps still send data to Facebook without your consent
A report in late December revealed that various apps were sending data to Facebook without your knowledge, including popular apps like Spotify, Skyscanner, and Kayak. …
Facebook isn’t doing a great job protecting the phone number you gave it
Well, we all should have seen this coming. Facebook is under fire again for arguably misusing user data, this time related to the phone numbers …
How to activate the hidden dark mode on Facebook Messenger
Over the weekend, Reddit sleuths discovered that dark mode had been added to the Facebook Messenger app. But rather than just putting the option in …
Of course some apps are sharing private health details with Facebook
Stop us if you’ve heard a version of this one before. Facebook is slurping up a trove of extremely personal data from users of almost …
Facebook will shut down the Onavo VPN app and its spying capabilities
Facebook used a VPN app for years to spy on the users that the same app should have been protecting against online threats. Facebook learned …
Facebook Messenger will finally let you unsend your messages
One of the countless Facebook scandals to come to light in 2018 was that of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ability to delete messages that he had …
Facebook’s latest move proves it’s betting big on blockchain tech
Over the years, Mark Zuckerberg has made a number of smart moves that only helped him expand the reach of Facebook and improve the outlook …
Instagram says it will now hide self-harm images behind ‘sensitivity screens’
Instagram’s new CEO Adam Mosseri penned an article in The Telegraph this week to explain the various steps Facebook’s subsidiary will take to prevent users from …
iPhone users can finally protect WhatsApp chats with Face ID or Touch ID
WhatsApp is Facebook’s most secure chat app because it offers end-to-end encryption on all communications by default. In the future, Facebook plans to create a …
Here’s what would happen if Apple ever kicked Facebook off the App Store
Recent days have seen the simmering tension between Apple and Facebook reach an unprecedented level, after months of back-and-forth sniping, veiled potshots and a cold …
Mark Zuckerberg finally told us when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp messaging will merge
A report a few days ago revealed that Mark Zuckerberg directed teams working on the various Facebook chat apps to create a unified instant messaging …
Like Facebook, Google also got a data collection app past Apple
If you’ve paid any attention at all to tech news today — or, heck, even just glanced briefly at Twitter — you’re likely aware that …
Facebook just shut down the iPhone version of the most despicable spying program it ever created
Facebook keeps promising it’ll do better to serve its customers, but more and more reports reveal nasty surprises about the way it conducts its business. …
Report: Facebook has been paying some teens for permission to track everything they do
Already under fire for apparently tricking kids into spending their parents’ money to play games on the social networking platform, Facebook now finds itself confronting …
Facebook’s unified messaging plan might finally convince you to leave Facebook
A bombshell report late last week revealed that Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are considering a massive overhaul of Facebook’s instant messaging apps which include two …
Congressman: The world would be better off if Facebook didn’t buy Instagram
Do we finally have a sense of why so many key Facebook leaders, particularly co-founders of the myriad products that comprise its suite of apps, …
This Chrome extension blocks distracting sites like Facebook and YouTube
How much extra work could you get done over the course of a day if you had an assistant looking over your shoulder, shooing you …
Facebook is planning to merge chat features across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp
In an ambitious plan that will reportedly involve thousands of engineers, Facebook is embarking on a new initiative designed to integrate the messaging services across …
You can’t delete Facebook on certain Samsung phones, and people are pissed
Gone are the days when Samsung phones would ship with plenty of bloatware. That’s software that you didn’t really need but which Samsung and its …
Facebook’s new ‘Unsend’ feature may be in testing in the Messenger app
A few weeks ago we learned that Facebook would soon launch an option to remove messages from a conversation that were sent by mistake. A …
Popular Android apps keep sending your data to Facebook without consent
Facebook probably can’t wait for 2018 to end, a year that brought a garden variety of user privacy infringing issues for the world’s largest social …
Mark Zuckerberg looks back at Facebook’s most challenging year to date
With 2019 right around the corner, Facebook is presumably thrilled to leave 2018 behind as the company looks to fix a lot of the damage …
The anti-Facebook hysteria has gotten out of control
There’s no getting around it: 2018 is a year Facebook would rather soon forget. Over the past few months, the social networking giant routinely made …
Bloomberg: Facebook’s Bitcoin rival will be used for WhatsApp money transfers
Back in May, while most Facebook-related reports still talked about the then-recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook quietly confirmed that a new unit led by former …
Facebook explains why the scandal over third-party access to private messages is overblown
At this point, Facebook probably can’t wait for 2018 to be over and done with. Earlier in the year, the social networking giant was riding …
