Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
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Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
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Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#2Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that.
(This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#3Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that. (This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
Ok, we'll s/demanding/asking for/ above.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#4Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that. (This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
Yeah and they surely won't use those passwords for anything else, like the phone numbers which they promised would be used for 2FA only.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#5I had someone create a Facebook account with my email once. I let it persist for a year until I got tired of the friend request notices. Did a password reset and deleted the account.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#6Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that. (This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
> Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that.
It's definitely a dark pattern though. And Facebook rarely seems content to only use data for the purpose they advertise when asking for it. For instance, there was an article recently that proved they were using phone numbers collected for 2FA to do ad-targeting as well.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#7This must be part of Zuckerberg's new pro-privacy makeover.
Maybe they can also scan users' e-mails for "suicidal ideation" and have their swatting algorithm send in the police to "protect" them.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#8https://www.axios.com/facebook-will-stop-asking-new-users-fo...
Facebook told Axios that "a very small group of people have the option of entering their email password to verify their account when they sign up for Facebook," but noted that people could choose instead to confirm their account with a code or link sent to their phone or email.
"That said, we understand the password verification option isn't the best way to go about this, so we are going to stop offering it,” the company said in a statement.
Those being asked for their e-mail passwords were users who listed an e-mail address that doesn't use the secure OAuth protocol, which allows users to verify their identity to a third party without sharing their passwords.
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#9In the old days didn't lots of people give their email passwords to Facebook, so that it can scan their contact and invite everyone to Facebook?
Re: Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
#10I dont know why anyone with any commonsense still uses Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. They're completely uncontrolled nonsense that I wouldn't trust with my email address. Let alone my phone number.
Call me crazy or socially inept, but I value privacy.