• Did Facebook Try to Lure Teenagers to their Platform Using Creepy Methods?

    Did Facebook Try to Lure Teenagers to their Platform Using Creepy Methods?

    Last October, Facebook purchased the viral polling app TBH with the intent of attracting more teenagers to their platform.  The problem was the app didn’t become anything for Facebook.  The intent was for the app to help Facebook get as many as 2.5 million new users, but it didn’t quite happen that way.  As a…

  • Facebook Exec Pens Damning Memo Days After the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

    Facebook Exec Pens Damning Memo Days After the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

    It feels like there’s always something happening with Facebook.  And, if I’m being honest, it almost always seems like it has to do with security.  Today’s news is no different.  What we are learning is that Facebook’s outgoing security chief, Alex Stamos, sent out a pretty incredible internal memo just days after the Cambridge Analytica…

  • Facebook Has Allowed Another Company to Steal User Data

    Facebook Has Allowed Another Company to Steal User Data

    Facebook is still quite deep in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and now they’re facing another one.  Facebook has suspended another data analysis firm that received user data.  This time, the firm is Crimson Hexagon.  Before I go too much farther, I just want to say – should we be surprised?  This is Facebook, and well,…