Just weeks after Facebook admitted storing hundreds of millions of users’ passwords insecurely, the social networking giant is now demanding some new users give up their outside email passwords.
Some new Facebook users who register with the social networking platform are greeted with a message asking them to provide the password for the email account they just signed up with.
“To continue using Facebook, you’ll need to confirm your email,” the message reads. “Since you signed up with [email address], you can do that automatically.”
But rather than direct the user to log into their outside email account to verify a link sent by Facebook, the user is asked to input their password directly into a Facebook form.
“That’s beyond sketchy,” security consultant Jake Williams told the Daily Beast blog. “They should not be taking your password or handling your password in the background. If that’s what’s required to sign up with Facebook, you’re better off not being on Facebook.”
In a response to an inquiry made by the Daily Beast, Facebook reiterated it does not store email passwords. The company also announced it will end the practice of asking new users to input their email passwords.
“We understand the password verification option isn’t the best way to go about this, so we are going to stop offering it,” Facebook wrote in an email to the Daily Beast blog.
Last year, Facebook was criticized for allowing advertisers to target users using their phone numbers that they provided to Facebook in order to receive a text message for two-factor verification.
Facebook recently began making user phone numbers searchable on Facebook “in defiance of user expectations and security best practices,” wrote the Electronic Foundation Frontier, a group dedicated to promoting Internet civil liberties.
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Anyone still on Facebook does not care about their privacy. They’ve been acting up for a while.
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Exactly!
I’m still trying to figure out how Facebook lasted longer than MySpace.
I keep telling you guys, with all the face identification, fingerprint ids, and checking and double checking your passwords, this is bigger than you think. The whole ‘smart’ movement is working because people at home are willing to be dumb.
Yawn. They already watching us through the phones, laptops, computers sooo what else?
They are not suppose to do that and Facebook is selling information .
Girl they laughing hard at us
This guys poker face is horrible. He is clearly apart of the 1% of psychopaths trying to screw the American people but his face gives him away. Like his conscience still messes with him or something….
Oh well your phone ever vibrate and it wasn’t a text, call, email or notification? Hmmm I think that’s when they login to watch LOL. Pay me no mind, I really have no clue but I do believe they be watching…
I am so over Facebook. Glad I don’t have an account. Anywho, if you saw the movie about Zuckerberg, you know why he looks that way.
Google former Facebook Executive speech. That man says they knew some of the consequences and when sh!t started to get too real, he pulled out quick!
Ever use an app like Whatsapp or Duo?? They have flashes during video calls and I swear that’s when they screenshot our conversations
Isn’t Instagram owned by Facebook?
I use Whatsapp all the time, only way I can chat with the fam in Barbados, but it’s scary. At the same time I be like aight ya’ll watching, Ima put on a whole show! Sometimes I put my middle finger to the camera for no reason lollll smh
It sure is and Facebook also owns Whatsapp.
??? I dint think Facebook is that important. Most ppl use the same passwords to most things, talk about security breach.
Anyone who complains need to get a grip. JUST DON’T JOIN. PERIOD!
? I bet your family be trippin when they see that finger pop up outta nowhere! I refuse to do provocative shows for that reason… Won’t catch no blackmail pics of me out on the interweb nope nope nope
People need to deep six FB. This dude here, pure evil.
HAHA I don’t blame you sis. Especially with ICloud, I DO NOT save anything provocative on there. People can login and compromise your information. I’ve seen it happen to the most regular folks. That is really embarrassing…
DNA. They want to know what makes you click. And soon, a satellite signal to make you stop clicking, permanently.
I was more concerned about my disgruntled family members and their sorry azz venting than I was about my privacy. They were plucking my last nerve. I was truly a grand opening, grand closing on FB. Fuh dat.
smh well I’m not doing too much talking before they come find me but I feel ya
So therefore, if you’re going to opt out of FB, you also need to opt out of IG and Whatsapp as well…You hear this people?
Facebook is the devil, the antichrist, and your ex all rolled into one.
LOL@ Grand closing.
This!! The stalker ex finding me randomly out tha blue is why I deleted….
Facebook is evil.
Chile say that!!! Perfectly described !!!
Crooks!
Mark Fuckerberg would fit right in with the Trump administration.
See this is why I got off. My acct got flagged bc I was using my first name as my first, middle and last name. Mind you I had been doing this for like 5 years on the site. They locked me out of my acct and sent me to a page that wanted me to upload my ID. I’ve been off Facebook for over 2 years now. Something about a social media site asking to see my ID didn’t sit right with me.
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Yes facebook get their passwords so yall can tell the feds where the negro criminal resides at!
Done! And Done!
I dont like this zuker kid at all. His foundation was stealing from his partners and he continues to do this
cornering the market on free speech…smh he is interesting!
Of course his conscience bothers him do you know how he got Facebook? Stealing and lying poor guy can’t sleep at night!
thats so true a drone can spot you when you sleeping and kill you!
Tom deserved better.
I deleted my Facebook account a month ago. Only fools are emotionally attached to Facebook. To me it was simply a product I was no longer in using .
About 8 years ago I had always been suspicious of Facebook’s security policies. I decided to delete my account then. They would change their policies literally every month and they became increasingly convoluted and just plain confusing to the point when I didn’t trust the site and did not want to leave a footprint for them to monetize.
I now sit back in disbelief that it’s all out in the open of how they data mine and have a disregard for users personal information and privacy. At this point it’s literally a joke.
They are using the 3 networks to build profiles on everyone and document everything said or done by the user.
They believe this will help them find criminals before the crime is committed. Kinda like that Tom Cruise movie Minority Report.
Facebook sells the information to the alphabet agencies.
I’m glad I leave all that info blank. Phone 555-1212.
I disabled my account in 2014, and I don’t miss it at all.
JUMP OFF NOW.
Facebook always embroiled in some kinna shidt. Suckerberg and nem can no longer be trusted
Glad I deleted my FB a long time ago.
Pure Greed.
He stole Facebook from the Winkelvoss Twins. He later had to pay them $65,000,000–their take from the success of FB
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I liked MySpace!
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Me too. I use to love designing my page.
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Me too! Lol
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