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> you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached A distinction without a difference. If Facebook's security policy permits

> you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached A distinction without a difference. If Facebook's security policy permits PII to be moved into insecure systems then Facebook itself is insecure. Here's another: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-users-email-contacts-without-permission-2019-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-millio... Yeah. 1.5 million, who cares right? No big deal. This is clearly a pattern, not an isolated incident.

buboard 7y ago
this is a privacy issue, but their security is still pretty good, relative to the staggering size of the users and data they hold.
- root_axis 7y ago
  > still pretty good, relative to the staggering size of the users and data they hold. Hundreds of millions of exposed users is not "pretty good", it's objectively horrible. > this is a privacy issue It is a privacy issue but primarily a security issue since the scandal is that the data was unintentionally leaked, not that it was shared with a 3rd party.