Facebook using contact information to suggest friends
What's the story
A report revealed that when people gave Facebook admittance to their phone contacts, Facebook used that information to make friend recommendations. That's how people often see their ex-colleagues etc who are contacts on their phones on the "People You May Know" list. Facebook incidentally used an algorithm analyzing the network of phone contacts and assumed all the people are connected.
28 Jun 2016
Facebook using location to suggest friends
A report revealed that Facebook tracked the location of users' smartphones to suggest you to people you've shared a GPS data point with. This could have disastrous security effects. It would share the name and identity of two people in the same location, for e.g. 2 patients of the same doctor might get suggested each other because they were in the same hospital.
25 Aug 2016
Facebook's new app for teenagers raises security concerns
Facebook's unveiled its new app, Lifestage, is a social network specifically for and entailed kids putting their selfies and interacting with their fellow classmates. But it raised security concerns as it was easy to fake on the app and anyone could pose as a high-schooler. Also, the kids had no way to find who was watching.
26 Aug 2016
WhatsApp sharing phone numbers with Facebook
WhatsApp's new privacy policy provided it authority to connect Facebook accounts to WhatsApp accounts. This will essentially give Facebook more information about users, letting the social network to suggest "phone contacts as friends" which could spark privacy concerns. It will also have access to data like device type and software information, although it affirmed that messages still be encrypted.
01 Aug 2016
PokemonGo using your private information
It was brought to light that downloading Nintendo's "Pokemon Go" meant that the user allowed access to any and all of your device data. The terms and conditions explicitly stated that the user waives access to their "emails, address book, location and other very private personal info." Further, the access permitted other third parties, to obtain your "content, your contacts and private information".
Data
31% of Indians shared sensitive information online
It was revealed that Indians (31%) most willingly give "access or share sensitive information on public wi-fi while travelling for leisure, the highest among the 14 countries surveyed."