Why NRIs are saying it's time to delete Facebook
Facebook hack exposes personal data of 50 million- More than 90 million users have had to log out
Millions of UK people could claim in compensation due to the site's design flaws

Facebook faces $1.6bn fine and formal investigation over massive data breach

Los Angeles, Oct. 03, 2018
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh

Facebook's struggles to contain the privacy, North American and worldwide  people  are deleting Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal and last week, Facebook hack exposes personal data of 50 million, where more than 90 million users have had to log out

In the wake of the tech company’s latest privacy scandal, is a meaningful consumer boycott possible?
On September 25, 2018,  Facebook engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. There is flaw in the system, which was discovered and allowed hackers to access nearly 50 million users' accounts.  Hackers obtained access to 50 million users' accounts and could use them as if the accounts were their own.
On September 26, Chang Chi-yuan, a Taiwanese hacker said that he found bugs on Facebook and would live stream how to use the flaw and delete CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account.

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Facebook's VP of Product Management Guy Rosen said: "But it's clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that impacted 'View As', a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people's accounts."

Facebook Logged Out:

While Facebook logged out all the accounts that were hit, finding yourself suddenly booted out of Facebook apps and the company also logged out another 40 million accounts as a precautionary measure. 
If you tried to log into Facebook this morning only to find that you strangely had to renter your password where before it had been saved, you might have been hit.
Facebook says it's fixed the vulnerability, and that 90 million people may suddenly find themselves logged out of their accounts or various Facebooks apps as a result.  Facebook is working with law enforcement.

• In March 2018, Facebook was down $50 billion in market value.
•  Facebook user’s  data misappropriated, stolen and misused  by the UK-based data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica.
• Zuckerberg reportedly took a personal hit of $6 billion the day after the data abuse was revealed. 
• Cambridge Analytica took personal information from 270,000 people via a personality quiz, according to Wylie. Facebook friends of people who had taken the quiz. It's claimed more than 50 million profiles had their data from Facebook used without them knowing.

Zuckerberg apologised in a lengthy statement saying the incident was a "major breach of trust". Facebook clearly did the tens of millions of people that saw these and other equally bogus stories.

Fake news & Bad content Issues:

Facebook is private entity/Company/Incorporation contain bad contents such as nudity, violent contents,, lot of illegal or harmful content lingers which cause physical harm to people and young children. IT MUST BE BAN
Facebook play a game both ways- arbitrary policies, what should be banned and what should remain for countless more eyes to see.

• Spam/Fake accounts which helps curb the spread of false news.
• Propaganda machine to convince voters of a conspiracy that does not exist
• A website such as Alex Jones’ InfoWars, which routinely peddles conspiracy theories, including that the September 11 terrorist attacks were carried out by the US government, is allowed on the platform

Facebook’s founder’s  mission  is to serves the higher purpose of profit. The idea was to see if the content of the newsfeed could alter the moods of users. It is 100% reinforcing nonsense loop  which Facebook silos off conversations between like-minded individuals.

• PEOPLE ARE SICK of all this Facebook garbage?...

• Hundreds of thousands NRIs  are Deleting and Removing their Facebook account from their life:
• Facebook Deleted 583 Million Fake Accounts, Enforcing Standards
  Facebook Inc. said it took down 583 million fake profiles in the first three months of the year, usually within minutes of their creation. The social network also scrubbed 837 million pieces of spam and acted on 2.5 million instances of hate speech
  Facebook came under intense scrutiny earlier this year over the use of private data and the impact of harmful content on its 2.2 billion monthly users, with governments around the world questioning the company’s policies.
  1.8 million Aussies deleted Facebook, and most don’t trust social media- Almost half of all Australians did not trust social media, according to the survey of more than 1000 people, and Roy Morgan chief executive Michele Levine said Facebook was the least trusted media brand in Australia.
  Nine percent of Americans in a new survey said they had deleted their Facebook account over privacy concerns. Thirty-five percent said they were using Facebook less than they used to.

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Precautions:

• To see that someone has gained improper access to your account-just check on Facebook’s Security and Login page, under the tab labeled “Where You’re Logged in,” you can see a list of devices that are signed into your account, as well as their locations.
• If you see an unfamiliar gadget or a device signed in at an odd location, you can click the “Remove” button to boot the device out of your account.
• There is no need to change your account password. But to be extra safe, you probably should anyway
• Facebook offers a security feature called two-factor authentication. It involves text messaging a unique code to your phone that you must type in after entering your password. This way, even if someone gained access to your password, it would be difficult to log in without that code.

Our Survey:

The survey data were obtained by asking all NRIs from North American between the age 20-55 years old. A report of a NRIpress/club survey concluded that 75% NRIs believe:

• Everyone seemed to be fake with no sensitiveness towards anybody.
• It's boring and useless. Most of the NRI made up my mind to get over with it, messaged our friends and took numbers to keep in touch via whatsapp.
• Facebook can be an addiction and there will be a withdrawal period to some extent. Once you get over the incessant yet unnecessary itch to find out what others are up to, it feels great. This may take a day for some times a few weeks

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