A list of topics we covered in the week of June 1 to June 7 of 2025
Tag: facebook
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, host David Ruiz digs into his own Facebook data to see what the social media giant knows about him.
A privacy advocacy group has clapped back at Meta over its plans to start training its AI model on European users’ data.
Tax preparation firms shared user information with Google and Meta without proper consent by using tracking pixels
Meta wants to introduce the option to upload a video selfie if you need to recover a lost Facebook or Instagram account.
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Zach Hinkle and Pieter Arntz about the Facebook funeral livestream scam.
The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
Instagram users are sharing a hoax in enormous numbers in an attempt at preventing Meta from harvesting their posts and photos to train its AI.
Meta has admitted to scraping Australian Facebook user’s public photos, posts and other data to train its AI models, including those of kids on adult profiles.
Facebook scammers are posting links to fake funeral live streams to get victims to sign up for paid services or steal credit card details