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FANUGAO, PATRICIA MEI O.

BSIT601

INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND SECURITY (DATA PRIVACY)

05 Task Performance 1

THE SOCIAL MEDIA BACKGROUND CHECK


Article 1 Article 2 Article 3
Title: The Great Privacy Race? Apple, Facebook Title: Facebook Email Search Could Leak Millions Title: What You Don’t Know About How Facebook
Pitch Data Transparency of Users' Details, But the Company Ignored it: Uses Your Data
Source: Report. Source:
Title and Source of the Article https://www.complianceweek.com/data- Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-
privacy/the-great-privacy-race-apple-facebook- https://www.news18.com/news/tech/facebook- world/what-you-dont-know-about-how-
pitch-data-transparency/30021.article email-search-could-leak-millions-of-users-details- facebook-uses-your-data/
but-the-company-ignored-it-3665744.html
Because of a recently implemented program, the Even if a person stated in their Facebook settings The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was
process of learning how businesses store and that they did not want Facebook to share their ID questioned by members of Congress over the
manage client data has lately been a great deal with anyone else, Facebook Email Search was still data-mining activities of the company.
less complicated and much more easily available. able to match their email addresses to their A Democrat from Michigan, Representative
Facebook has established itself as a frontrunner in accounts. Debbie Dingell, expressed interest in learning
Summarize the article in 2-3 sentences the opposition because of its desire to shield the According to reports, the Facebook Email Search more about the tracking software used by
personal information of its users from the prying v1.0 tool was capable of performing searches on Facebook. Ms. Dingell said that it was irrelevant
eyes of advertising. Instead of worrying about the up to 5 million user accounts every single day. whether or not the listener had a Facebook
privacy practices of their rivals, businesses should account.
focus on protecting the personal information of
their own customers.
Facebook has implemented additional safety A security researcher spent less than ten When a user creates an account on Facebook, the
measures as a direct result of the data's utilization. thousand rupees to buy two hundred different firm makes it clear that they must first agree to
It will enable users with the framework to react to Facebook logins. The researcher utilized these the terms of the company's data policy. It makes
customer queries regarding what kind of data are logins to create an experiment that integrates it abundantly clear that it gathers information
gathered, where it is stored, how it is used, how to with Facebook Search. The research revealed that about the websites and applications that you
How was data used?
opt out of its sale, and how to delete it, just like the program was able to access the email visit, how you use our services while you are on
Facebook are rolling out will. addresses of Facebook users even after the those websites and apps, and information that is
individuals had made it very clear that they did provided to either you or us by the developer or
not wish to disclose their IDs with any third publisher of the website or app in question.
parties.
This is an ongoing event, and as the headline of Facebook continues to struggle with this issue The case that is discussed in this article has been
Was this a one-time occurrence, or is it ongoing? this article stated, there is a competition between because the firm maintains such a large resolved, however the issue that Facebook was
Apple and Facebook to determine who will be database, and its programmers and data holders facing is still active. According to the first and
better in retaining data much securely in the are unable to effectively enable the database's second articles, Facebook is continuing to
future. The data transparency that both use. Because of this, whenever there is a data develop a new algorithm addressing the
companies give to their customers has become a breach, the platform will automatically shut protection of its database.
major point of contention between the two down, and the administrators will have a difficult Facebook has released an upgrade this month
businesses. This update is currently circulating time removing the threat that has been that focuses on security measures, as well as
throughout the platform, but only a select few circulating in the platform. According to the most other countermeasures, to better protect the
profiles and accounts have had the opportunity to recent story that I read, Mr. Zuckerberg and his identity and data of its users.
experience it yet. Apple, on the other hand, has team are still in the process of developing
made the protection of user data a central tenet countermeasures for this kind of intrusion.
of its marketing strategy, whereas Facebook is in
the process of updating its software to enable
users to lock their accounts. My account is one of
those that can unlock my profile, even though I do
not particularly enjoy using social media.
Yes, regardless of which of these two enormous Yes, if all of this is for the future of more securely Yes, they demanded it in order to guarantee the
corporations emerges victorious in its protecting people's personal data, then I do not honesty and openness of the data that was
competition, the people are the only ones who will see what the problem is with it. The only obtained through the app, which, ideally, ought
Do you think it was appropriate for personal
ultimately profit from it. I mean, they do all this disadvantage of data mining is that it may subject to coincide with the data that was provided.
data to be mined for this purpose? Why or why
research and innovation in the hopes of making your data to research for the development of
not?
people's lives easier and more fulfilling so that future data management systems.
they can enjoy their lives to the fullest. Isn't that
why they do it?

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