Over the past few years, Facebook hasn’t done much to convince users that it takes user privacy as seriously as it should. Indeed, it seems that the social networking giant can’t even go a month without some new scandal or security breach making the news. Most recently, Facebook revealed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of Facebook and Instagram were improperly stored in plain text on internal servers. In short, Facebook employees could have potentially looked up the passwords for individual users, though there’s no indication that this actually happened.
Nonetheless, many would argue that Facebook hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt with respect to security and user privacy.
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