Headlines report “Wells Fargo takes $1.6 billion hit linked to fake-account scandal” and their CEOs are being punished for lack of ethics. For the second time in 2½ years, a chief executive of Wells Fargo & Co. resigned abruptly on Thursday as the scandal-ridden bank took another stab at putting its problems behind it. Tim … Continue reading Is Facebook the Wells Fargo of Social Media?
This title comes from a recent interview with Oregon’s Senator Wyden Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy. I think he ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial fines to—and let me underline this—the possibility of a prison term. Because he hurt a lot of people. And, … Continue reading US Senator Argues for Jailing Facebook Execs
Five years ago in 2014, the future of Facebook trust was in the balance. What happened? ‘When I joined Facebook in 2016, my mom was so proud of me, and I could walk around with my Facebook backpack all over the world and people would stop and say, ‘It’s so cool that you worked for … Continue reading The Facebook Trust Disaster Was Easily Predicted
Good write-up on how the security team at Facebook seems intentionally to be misleading customers into trusting a differently branded “private network” control that actually did the opposite… “because we’re part of Facebook”: Onavo collects your mobile data traffic. This helps us improve and operate the Onavo service by analyzing your use of websites, apps … Continue reading Facebook VPN Turns Out to Be Anti-Privacy Surveillance Tool