New York attorney general to investigate Facebook for scraping 1.5 million users' email contacts

Following the revelation that Facebook 'unintentionally' scraped and uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts, the New York attorney general's office has announced that it is opening an investigation into the social media giant. Attorney general Letitia James said that it is 'time Facebook is held accountable for how it handles consumers' personal information'. See also: How to delete the contacts that Facebook may have scraped from you Privacy: Facebook 'unintentionally' scraped and uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts Facebook: er, actually it was millions of Instagram passwords we stored in plain text, not thousands James says that 'Facebook has repeatedly… [Continue Reading]