Facebook fiasco never ends

[Chuxing]

Facebook says it ‘unintentionally uploaded’ 1.5 million users’ email contacts without permission

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/facebook-reportedly-uploaded-people-email-contacts-without-consent.h...

welcome to facebook ...

[CraginS]

For another article on this Facebook Fiasco, see

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-uploaded-email-contacts-of-15m-users-wit...

It amazes me that FB continues to take malicious, intentional action, and then, when caught, weakly apologize and claim it was "accidental;" or "unintentional."

Hogwash!

Even more frustrating is how FB has embedded itself into modern commerce. Last weekend I spoke with the owner of a small, local business about his use of FB. He keeps his personal usage at an absolute minimum, but said he has determined that his business's FB presence is responsible for $185,000 USD a year in business. 

Many authors of books published through Amazon or other small online publishers have also told me that they cannot survive economically as authors without their FB presence.

[Shannon]

This article portrays 'Facebook's Evolution of Privacy' --- probably one of many giving Zuckerberg a bit of a headache these days. Assuming it's too late for Facebook to make amends & recover from these blows, it is making efforts to try and cushion them.

I can't help wonder how the majority of Facebook users are reacting to this. If their profile pages are already adorned with non-sensitive PII & being shared with everyone, seeing this divulged may not be much of a concern to them...