Facebook tells employers: Hands off our users’ passwords

Facebook has now weighed in on the brewing controversy of employers requiring applicants to hand over their log-in information. Their reply: Hands off. Erin Egan, the company’s chief privacy officer, posted a note Friday on Facebook explicitly stating the company’s position:”As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just [...]

Facebook spies on phone users’ text messages, report says

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Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported. Other well-known companies accessing smartphone users’ personal data – such as text messages – include photo-sharing site [...]