Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users

[ignhelper]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebook-data-leak-exposed-intimate-details-of-3m-users/

Yea, right, I bet its more than 3m.

At this point I'm really not surprised when a govt/facebook/google/whichever company got caught for holding on to data, they've been doing it for decades, they keep saying 'oh! we'll do better' and they keep popping up in the news.

I don't have the ability to be that big of a change anyway, its pretty much either you live with it or don't have social media or go live in some remote area with no cameras.

[Noob©]

Not directly from Facebook? It speaks of an app called myPersonality.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

Unless I'm reading this wrong, this isn't facebook general, but one of FB's side apps called "myPersonality".

Don't get me wrong, this is still big, but the dataset seems to be only limited to those who actually used this app.

Digital privacy isn't guaranteed unless you host it yourself with your own hardware.

[Kingof🅱east]

Yeah, though there's a lot to dislike about Facebook this breach and the one before it seem to stem not directly from Facebook, but from third party apps that people signed into Facebook through and authorized to see their data, who then severely mishandled that data. Except for inadequate auditing I don't think I can't really blame Facebook for this.

[GHOST!!!!]

Intimate Questionnaires? What exactly where these questionnaires?

[PsychedelicLiz]

I never post anything I wouldn't want a million people to see anyways, and I always post things I want a million people to see. (lots of irony in this system)

[tau]

The credentials gave access to the “Big Five” personality scores of 3.1 million users. These scores are used in psychology to assess people’s characteristics, such as conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism. The credentials also allowed access to 22 million status updates from over 150,000 users, alongside details such as age, gender and relationship status from 4.3 million people.

Basically they gathered all this data and put it online but you required a username and password to access it. You got one by registering as a collaborator to the project.

More than 280 people from nearly 150 institutions did this, including researchers at universities and at companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

The data was given to university students for a coursework. Someone uploaded the code to github with the username and password in it which, according to the article, you could find easily.

[Swilly]

I'm so glad I deleted my fucking facebook.

[StarBot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEI3N9kIyP4

[Loadingue]

I'm so glad I've never been on Facebook despite social pressure.

[Deathtrooper]

aka they haven't done jackshit since the first big leak.

Facebook is going to keep gathering info, anyone wanting to believe that they'll stop is naive.