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Facebook 'unintentionally Uploaded' Email Contacts Of 1.5 Million Users: Report -- MarketWatch

道琼斯 ·  Apr 18, 2019 18:01

DJ Facebook 'unintentionally Uploaded' Email Contacts Of 1.5 Million Users: Report -- MarketWatch

Facebook (FB) had "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since March 2016, Reuters reported late Wednesday, citing company confirmation in its report. New users of the social media site were being asked to verify accounts with their email passwords, a process that in some cases uploaded those users' email contacts to Facebook, the company told Reuters in a statement. "These contacts were not shared with anyone and we are deleting them," the company told Reuters. Facebook has dropped the email password verification requirement. It's the latest discovery about a company already under scrutiny for privacy-related issues, including a data scandal in which Cambridge Analytica obtained 87 million Facebook users' personal information without their consent. FB shares are slightly lower in Thursday pre-market action. They're up more than 36% year to date.

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