Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
Seems like they should add another 0 to the fine after the recent hat trick:<p>1) Prompting users to give Facebook their email passwords.[0]<p>2) Using that email access to "inadvertently" upload the information of their email contacts.[1]<p>3) Storing said passwords and others in plaintext. [2]<p>It's pretty impressive that a company could do something so brazenly malevolent and be confident that they will escape with no more than a fine.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demanding-some-new-users-email-passwords" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demand...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-uploaded-email-contacts-of-15m-users-without-consent" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/" rel="nofollow">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...</a>