Privacy: Facebook 'unintentionally' scraped and uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts

It seems that barely a week passes without another Facebook scandal emerging, and this week is no different. The company has revealed that it accidentally uploaded the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users who signed up for the social network since 2016. A glitch meant that new users who signed up for email password verification had their email contacts scraped and uploaded without consent. As of last month, Facebook stopped offering this verification option to first-time users, although it's not clear if this is because of the privacy issue. See also: Facebook suffers huge outage, along with… [Continue Reading]