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Bug in Facebook Messaging App Exposes Kids to Strangers

2019-07-24 20:35:09| TechNewsWorld

A flaw in a Facebook app designed for children under 13 years old allows kids to chat online with people unapproved by their parents. The messaging app for kids is designed to give parents control over who their kids text and video chat with online, but a bug in the software lets a contact approved to chat with one child to talk to another without the approval of the second child's parents.

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Facebook app installs drop by 1.1 mln in Netherlands in less than a year

2018-11-29 11:56:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The penetration of the Facebook app on Dutch smartphones fell by 1.1 million installations since the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Dutch Apps Market report from Telecompaper. In total, 68 percent of Dutch smartphones had the app installed in Q3 2018, down from 74 percent in Q4 2017.

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Facebook to offer rewards for reporting app misuse of personal data

2018-04-10 17:16:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Facebook has launched another effort to stem the abuse of personal data on the social network, offering rewards to people who report any misuse of data by app developers. Inspired by the usual 'bug bounty' programmes to detect security vulnerabilities, the Data Abuse Bounty programme will pay cash to people with first-hand knowledge and proof of cases where a Facebook platform app collects and transfers people's data to another party to be sold, stolen or used for scams or political influence.

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