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FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

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Post by rgharris »

Sargos wrote: post #131
rgharris wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment prompted me to check my LinkedIn 2FA and it turns out that they now support TOTP apps (they list Authenticator App as the option). I believe it is very new though.

Where do you see that? I still only see the option for SMS 2FA.

On desktop I saw it under Settings & Privacy -> Two-step Verification after clicking "Change verification method" (previously had SMS setup).

Here is a direct link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/two-step-verification

Re: FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

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Post by g00s3_caLL_x2 »

thesausageking wrote: post #164

The head of the FTC voted against it and gave his reasoning here: https://twitter.com/chopraftc/status/1154010756079390720 One that stood out for me is complete immunity for for the execs for "known" and "unknown" violations: "Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other executives get blanket immunity for their role in the violations. This is wrong and sets a terrible precedent. The law doesn’t give them a special ex…

Law enforcement leverages social media in a major way. They have customized software that interfaces with all the major environments and ties them all together.

It makes their jobs (LEO) much easier. They are not going to shit where they eat.

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Post by bilbo0s »

g00s3_caLL_x2 wrote: post #182
thesausageking wrote: post #164

The head of the FTC voted against it and gave his reasoning here: https://twitter.com/chopraftc/status/1154010756079390720 One that stood out for me is complete immunity for for the execs for "known" and "unknown" violations: "Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other executives get blanket immunity for their role in the violations. This is wrong and sets a terrible precedent. The law doesn’t give them a special ex…

Law enforcement leverages social media in a major way. They have customized software that interfaces with all the major environments and ties them all together. It makes their jobs (LEO) much easier. They are not going to shit where they eat.

Yep.

That's exactly the violations I figured they were getting immunity from. I mean, let's be real, they're not going to undo any of that, and they likely want to make sure that any new social nets set up the same facilities for them.

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Post by rainyMammoth »

abecedarius wrote: post #114

Former Chief Security Officer of Facebook on how the FTC judgment is fantastic for Facebook and terrible for users (as @zooko summarized it): https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1154025820890865664

I cannot stand Alex Stamos takes on all of this.

He WAS the CISO for Facebook during all the biggest scandals. He WAS the person responsible for overseeing all of this.

He decided conveniently to exit Facebook once the bad press came over and now he is trying to play the "expert card" on everything related to security and democracy. It's really a shame that we don't keep him more accountable.

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Post by rainyMammoth »

nappy-doo wrote: post #67
annadane wrote: post #63

I still find Facebook has one of the most toxic cultures of any company out there. All they've ever done during their history is betray user trust, but it's ok as long as they keep 'apologizing' and then doing nothing to fix it

Did you work there? I worked there for 2 years (it was a mistake), and found that the culture wasn't toxic, just obtuse. They never questioned what they did, or thought about the implications. They focused on "move fast," without really thinking through implications of things.

Working somewhere and seeing a place from the inside has nothing to do with the fact that the company is toxic or not.

I think we all agree that Facebook takes really good care of their employees and keep them happy, whatever it takes. That doesn't prevent the company to produce a product that is toxic to humanity. It is of course difficult to see that when you are extremely well paid and your salary depends on you producing that product.

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Post by jammygit »

elliekelly wrote: post #112
indiandragon wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> prohibited from using telephone numbers obtained to enable a security feature (e.g., two-factor authentication) for advertising Facebook is not alone in misuse or wrongful use of phone number given for 2FA. LinkedIn explicitly requires phone number to be added on the profile to enable 2FA and makes the phone number visible by default to all the contacts, if you don't want your phone number visible; you'll have to l…

Yesterday I went to set up 2FA for MongoDB and entered my phone number in the form but then realized I could use Authy so I never hit save/submit. I’ve already gotten two text messages from them even though my account shows my phone number as “Not Set.” It really made me wonder what other shady stuff they might be doing with my and my customer’s data.

Mongodb does this? Does that affect how trustworthy they are for hipaa compliant services?

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Post by tareqak »

thesausageking wrote: post #164

The head of the FTC voted against it and gave his reasoning here: https://twitter.com/chopraftc/status/1154010756079390720 One that stood out for me is complete immunity for for the execs for "known" and "unknown" violations: "Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other executives get blanket immunity for their role in the violations. This is wrong and sets a terrible precedent. The law doesn’t give them a special ex…

Rohit Chopra is not the head of the FTC: he's one of the five FTC commissioners [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission#Curre...

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Post by SwetDrems »

thfuran wrote: post #147
pyython wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say this! I still can't believe credit bureaus are allowed to even exist. At no time do I give them explicit permission to collect my (very) personal information, there's almost literally no way I can opt out (short of not participating in the modern financial system), their interpretation of this data has an outsized influence on my quality of life, AND they have proven themselves incompetent at protect…

>If I'm worried about Facebook's use of my data the answer is simple: stop using Facebook. Don't forget to stop using every website that embeds facebook buttons (or block the scripts). It's not exactly easy to prevent facebook from gathering information either.

Firefox's Facebook container extension and Privacy Badger extension makes this easy to do.

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Post by throwaway2048 »

joelx wrote: post #88

https://joelx.com/facebook-fined-while-murderers-go-free/151...

So I should be free to break any law less serious than murder, I'm sure a judge will see the wisdom of your argument when I appear before them.

Gonna make so much money robbing these banks.

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