Facebook再次被爆出泄露用户隐私,或将面临欧盟巨额罚款
据英国《太阳报》10月19日报道,Facebook旗下的社交软件instagram被指控泄露了数百万未成年人的私人信息,或将面临欧盟的巨额罚款。
在社交媒体Instagram上,有许多企业账户在平台上进行各种活动以及商品宣传。他们在平台上发帖后,平台会为他们提供每条帖子的详细数据。例如:哪个用户在何时看到这个帖子,以及获得观看的次数和点赞的次数。这个功能也吸引了许多非企业用户,部分用户经常切换到企业账户以利用Instagram的分析工具。
On social media instagram, there are many enterprise accounts on the platform for various activities and product promotion. After they post on the platform, the platform will provide them with detailed data of each post. For example: which user sees this post when, and how many times to watch and like it. This function also attracts many non enterprise users, some of whom often switch to enterprise accounts to use instagram's analysis tools.
但是,用户使用企业账户的前提是必须公开电子邮件地址和电话号码。这一条款要求instagram可能面临欧盟巨额罚款。Instagram用户的 低年龄是13岁,但由于智能设备的普及和开放的网络环境,很多13岁以下的孩子也可以使用这个应用程序。
数据显示,数百万青少年正在将他们的个人账户转换为企业账户。这意味着他们的个人联系信息可以由超过10亿人自由访问,也意味着各种各样的人可以通过这个渠道向他们传达信息,其中参与者可能有不良信息和照片,对未成年人的成长极为不利。
而这已经不是Facebook 次曝出有关泄露用户隐私的丑闻了,之前还曝出英国脱欧和美国大选都借助了Facebook数据隐私。尽管Facebook的创始人马克·扎克伯格曾说:“我们有责任保护您的数据,如果不能,我们就不应该为您服务。”但是这句话似乎从来没有被真正实现过。
This is not the first time that Facebook has exposed a scandal about the disclosure of users' privacy. It was also revealed that both brexit and the US election relied on Facebook's data privacy. Although Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once said, "we have a responsibility to protect your data, if not, we should not serve you." But it seems that this sentence has never been really realized.