How #facebook’s 50m file leak could have been avoided
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Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017. Stephen Lam/ReutersOn Sunday, Facebook disabled Christopher Wylie’s account on Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram after blowing the whistle for a 50m file data breach. According to Facebook, “The claim that this is a data breach is completely false. Dr. Aleksandr Kogan requested and gained access to information from users who chose to sign up to his app, and everyone involved gave their consent. People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked.”Technically, they are right; there was no hacking involved in the process. But, still there has (...)