Facebook again violates the privacy of its users by sharing their data

Last year, Facebook was forced to admit which after months to encourage users to switch to two-factor authentication when registering your phone number, also He used them to target users with ads.

Some Users have found that the default Facebook settings allows anyone, with or without a Facebook account, to search for a user profile based on the same phone number as the one previously added to their account. The goal of two-factor authentication is to increase security.

By default, once your mobile phone number has been added to your account for two-factor authentication purposes, Facebook allows anyone to search for it by using it.

A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept magazine shows that that mobile phone operators, as well as phone manufacturers, about a hundred different companies in 50 countries, They are offering their customers more surveillance data pulled directly from their smartphone by Facebook.

Proposed for a selection of Facebook partners, the data includes not only technical information about Facebook users' devices and the use of Wi-Fi and wireless networks, but also their locations, interests and even their social groups.

This data comes not only from the company's core iOS and Android apps, but also from Instagram and Messenger.

Advertising is no longer a business for Facebook

The privacy of personal data of Facebook users is constantly compromised by many scandals. Marc Zuckerberg tHe is also concerned about the situation.

That is why earlier this year, announced that it will bring together its top three messaging offerings for better security management into one unified platform of user data.

This caused controversies of all kinds Inside the company. It must be believed that since 2016, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company's business is not what it seems.

Some experts are particularly upset that Facebook has commercialized the use of the information, and it appears to have helped facilitate the use, as well as other Facebook data, to rank customers based on their likely creditworthiness.

Such use could violate federal law., which strictly regulates credit evaluations. Facebook has stated that it does not provide solvency services and that the data provided to cell phone operators and manufacturers does not go beyond what it has already collected for other uses.

The mobile operators that Facebook is associated with are already powerful enough due to their ability to monitor GSM users.

I give you data and you buy me the services

Actionable Insights is the name of the service through which Facebook provides the data of its users to its partners.

The service was announced last year quite quietly on Facebook's engineering blog. The anonymous source of the magazine The Intercept explained that Facebook had offered this service to mobile phone operators and phone manufacturers apparently for free.

According to the source, granting free access to Actionable Insights in these cases is not only intended to help operators provide better services, but also to ensure that they continue to buy more and more targeted advertising on Facebook.

It is exactly this kind of quasi-transactional data access that has become the hallmark of Facebook's activity, allowing the company to deny that it ever sells its users' personal data while exploiting it for profit.

The US magazine reported that a Facebook spokesperson declined to say whether the company tolerated or endorsed advertising partners who used Facebook user data for this purpose or whether it verified how third parties were using Actionable Insights.

But he specified that his partners can only use Actionable Insights for "internal" purposes.

According to part of your presentation, the Facebook mobile application collects and groups eight categories of information for use by more than 100 different telecommunications companies in more than 50 countries around the world, including information on phone use.

Source: https://theintercept.com/