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Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it’s investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed by third-party JavaScript trackers embedded on websites using Login With Facebook. The exploit lets these trackers gather a user’s data including name, email address, age range, gender, locale, and profile photo depending on what users originally provided to the website. It's unclear what these trackers do with the data, but many of their parent companies including Lytics and ProPS sell publisher monetization services based on collected user data.
Meanwhile, concert site BandsInTown was found to be passing Login With Facebook user data to embedded scripts on sites that install its Amplified advertising product. An invisible BandsInTown iframe would load on these sites, pulling in user data that was then accessible to embedded scripts. That let any malicious site using BandsInTown learn the identity of visitors. BandsInTown has now fixed this vulnerability.
TechCrunch is still awaiting a formal statement from Facebook beyond "We will look into this and get back to you."
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/18/login-with-facebook-data-hijacked-by-javascript-trackers/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 21 2018, @01:54AM (11 children)
Those people who are comfortable with Facebook tracking them all over the web won't care at all. We outliers don't log in with Facebook, if we even have a Facebook account. The sheep won't notice, won't care, and life will go on.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:11AM (8 children)
It's amusing to see stories like: Delete Facebook? It's a lot more complicated than that [usatoday.com]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:27AM (6 children)
I think we should blame authors. They aren't writing enough dystopian novels. Where is Orwell when you need him? I mean, people just don't seem to understand how bad things CAN GET. To date, we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. If we don't apply the brakes, if things continue entirely at the will of government and corporations, there will be ZERO freaking privacy.
You leave the house (apartment), get in the car (bus) and head off for work. A cop stops you, to inform you that you failed to lock the door, or to set your burglar alarm, or whatever. So, now you have to turn around, go back home, and make things right. And, probably pay a fine for having imposed upon the police department with your negligence.
Maybe a new mother, giving baby a bath - and she does it "wrong". There's a knock at the door (unless the police have mandated that cops have automatic passes at all residential front doors) and some busybody cop barges in to "teach" Mama how to properly bathe baby. And, yes, there is every possibility that Mother will be fined - cops gotta have revenues to fund these interventions!
Privacy. Protect it or lose it - and we're doing precious little to protect it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:54AM (2 children)
Black Mirror [wikipedia.org] has been doing a pretty good job of illustrating the dangers of the social media future.
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Sunday April 22 2018, @01:11PM (1 child)
Black Mirror [wikipedia.org] has been doing a pretty good job of illustrating the dangers of the social media future.
Dangers or attractive template? Monkey see, monkey do.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 22 2018, @01:27PM
It depends. Many people today love to engage with Facebook, Instagram, Kardashians, mobile payments, doxing, blah blah blah.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:48AM
A few too many details for this to be a hypothetical scenario. Say it ain't so, Runaway! You were busted for improper infant bathing techniques? Oh, the same and humiliation, that must live on forever, after even being charged, let alone convicted, of such a dastardly act! !
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 21 2018, @03:43PM
In Newfoundland it's unlawful to leave your car unlocked
Where my ex is from there's not much to do but joyriding
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(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Sunday April 22 2018, @02:22AM
You might want to read The Robespierre Conspiracy. [amazon.com]
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday April 21 2018, @08:05AM
These are not professions. These people contribute nothing to the greater society as a whole, they only contribute to their own little bubble. Of course they don't want to see their own little bubble to pop, but in reality they are as obsolete as black-face minstrels.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday April 21 2018, @04:44AM (1 child)
I opened an Facebook account for you, Runaway. Sorry, but they insisted on a real phone number, and your real name, and so forth. So you are a victim, now, despite your best efforts. No need to thank me. Your password is "Runaway12345", in case you want to log in to be javascript hacked.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21 2018, @07:47PM
do they really require a phone number now?
i wouldnt install signal because, to chat on my desktop, i required to give them my phone number and contact list, because they said, to find if other contacts in my list already have it, so I can be idenfitied about who is trying to keep private.
fuck that? so i didn't install it, because I remember back when I actually had to... deliberately tell chat programs who I wanted to chat with, not let the server slurp that data as part of how I can rat out my friends and family and stuff.
it doesnt matter to me if they are so encrypted it takes 3 deses to unlock the sucker; they are taking copies of data that I on principle do not want them to have. I don't want to have to ask everyone on my contact list hey is it OK if I give your details to a company known for hiding the texts of bad people if we were to believe the government propaganda? No? shit now I can't use it
no one asked me if it was OK for some app to download my info from their contact list.
so fuck facebook for requiring the phone number. i dont want them to have it but I imagine they already do. just confirming it for them would feel dirty