533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me. How are we still ok with this shit?<p>The sooner we get rid of the cancer that FB is, the better.
I didn’t share my contact book with FB apps either. It was probably her—a person in her 70s, not necessarily experienced with tech.<p>The main reason this company exists, or that ad tech can maintain a facade of not being a mainly bullshit industry with made up metrics, is the lack of informed consent.<p>It’s almost funny how we accept the current situation as normal. Because, I think that we’ll look back at these times with disbelief of reckless we were and how cheap we’d sell ourselves.