In a latest privacy goof up, Facebook "unintentionally" uploaded the emails of almost 1.5 million of its users during the past three years. "Last month we stopped offering email password verification as an option for people verifying their account when signing up for Facebook for the first time", the company said. Changes in May 2016, however, allowed the contact lists of about 1.5 million users to be uploaded to Facebook without users' knowledge.
The company said they are in the process of deleting the mistakenly uploaded contact lists and that they had not been shared with anyone outside of Facebook.
According to BI, a security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking some users to enter the password for their email account when they're making a new Facebook account.
In early April, Facebook came under fire for asking some users for their email password when signing up to the social network.
Facebook has been hit by a number of privacy-related issues recently, including a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees. From there, click the "Delete All" button and Facebook should delete all your contacts that they uploaded. However, there is no clarity on whether the contacts were used for ad-targeting too, or were accessible to Facebook data brokers.
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Welcome to the latest episode of "Facebook's Daily Screw-up". Facebook claims it changed the feature and removed the text stating the contact information was being uploaded, but the underlying code that performed this task accidentally remained.
Contacts started being taken without consent in May 2016, the company told Business Insider, which broke the story.
In an interview with a Yahoo News podcast she said: "I personally gave up Facebook, which was kind of a big deal because I started my campaign on Facebook". It will also notify users that are affected by this issue.
"Facebook has not disclosed the full extent such access might grant, nor have they provided any indication of how harvested emails might be used", Mackey added.
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