- recent hack of 50M access tokens, not passwords. I'm not saying it's better but media make it sound very bad. People are OK when Equifax lost 100s of million users most sensitive information - SSN - Cambridge Analytica - this was a mistake but a lot of them think that FB sold user data to CA which they did not. Media is very good at creating click bait articles. What other reasons do you have to hate Facebook? Edit: for people who are saying that FB is not innovative, look at these before you comment; Besides the usual product lines, these are some of the best innovations in the software world. - Cassandra - pytorch (pytext) - it has one of the best backend infrastructure out of all the software companies out there. The only other company which could handle this scale is Google. May be Uber is getting there. - machine learning, AI - others which are not public yet.
- Using phone numbers provided by users for 2FA for ad targeting. - Not being innovative, stealing ideas from other companies and winning the market over (Insta/Messeneger Stories vs Snapchat) - Buying other companies and monetizing the shit out of them
-You were targeted the same way before phone numbers -Kinda like how the Pixel 3 has a notch and took away the headphone jack? 2) would you rather use Snapchat or Instagram? -Like... Any other company would do?
Lol you’re so sad, Goldclub
Because it’s run by an arrogant prick who thinks he controls the world
Hold on. Trump is president of the United States, not Facebook
He/she meant the other arrogant prick who is also unfortunately thinking he can be president.
Don't really care if my fb gets hacked. No damage possible.
Agreed. All they will find out is I like minion memes more than a man should.
Fb into isn't even sensitive.
It is for the millions of people that use FB single-sign on. Hackers had access all of these peoples’ third-party internet accounts, not just FB. That’s a horrible situation.
Surely, you are not a eligible to work for Uber. Lol
I don’t hate FB but would love to see you guys build more products. Ad revenue is good but having the top tech talent in the world, I think you can do much better things. Google is dying without much innovation in the recent past. In fact MS, Amazon have crossed FB and G in terms of innovation and coming up with new products/features. Hope to see FB do the same.
We’re trying with Oculus, products for the home, and bringing internet to 2nd/3rd world countries.
Google has way mo innovations than you think ;)
I think the big problem is indirection. Equifax has some numbers... who cares about numbers. (Sure it could mean your life is ruined but that *might* happen) Also what is Equifax? (It’s primarily used by banks and other “enterprises” not by consumers). Equifax goes out of their way to ensure the customer doesn’t know they exist so the customer can’t ask for a credit report or freeze their credit, etc. Facebook used by the consumer. Heavily advertised and branded to consumers. (Facebook wants people to know it’s name) Also “my account was hacked? What about my nudes?” (This is very direct. It’s not just numbers it’s tangible damage. It’s immediate and permanent embarrassment) Between those two things it’s not surprising the consumer responds differently to those (dis)similar events.
Because it treats the customer’s profile data as a commodity...wait I guess that means your FB data is the product making users not the customer. Maybe the fact FB treats that trust relationship as a secondary priority and facilitates low grade relationships. It’s a breeding ground for MLM schemes, stalking, narcissism and misinformation. It gets old people and generally non-tech savvy people ‘online’ so I guess that’s positive...unfortunately, they’re also the easiest prey.
If FB didn’t care about the data, they would just sell it to the highest bidder. Yes, the data is used in advertising products. But users only use FB if they’re obtaining some kind of value from the service. Would you use a free service if you obtained no value from it? The value exchange is that data is used for targeted advertising because, hey, we’re not a charity or a non-profit. With that said, losing user’s trust will cause them to stop using your product. So actually we do care what happens with user data and the user experience (fake news, abuse, etc.)
Exactly. Users data is utmost importance inside Facebook. There have been mishaps this year but you know what we'll learn from our mistakes and kick the ass again
No one was giving Equifax a break. They were vilified by the media and other sources as well. Hold fb to at least the same standard. They are forever spouting crap about how awesome their engineering is (unlike Equifax). Really? Why cant you figure out security and privacy? Do you suck or just not care?
Where did you read about the recent hack? Did you really read the sequence of events what lead to it? Read it and get back to me if you still think the engineers who work at FB are dumb.
The dirty truth is FB is a company that don’t care about your privacy .
I don't know where you work but where I work we take privacy very seriously.
So seriously you leak 50M users data
Calm down Mark
Mark doesn't have the time for blind 😆