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Emails show that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had prior\u00a0knowledge of Facebook’s privacy issues<\/a>, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n One of the emails from April 2012 is deeply concerning. It shows Zuckerberg and Facebook insiders learning about a third-party app that took data from tens of millions of Facebook users<\/strong> while ignoring Facebook privacy policies.<\/p>\n The app was eventually suspended, but sources told the WSJ that this did not cause Facebook to look into their privacy issues.<\/p>\n Keep in mind that this was six years before millions of users had their data compromised in the\u00a0Cambridge Analytica Scandal.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>It was also long before we knew about other apps that were stealing our data without our knowledge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Facebook steals information about your menstrual cycles, home buying, more<\/p>\r\n Read now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n To clarify, none of the emails appear to show Zuckerberg deliberately disobeying Facebook policy. However, they do show a huge lack of responsibility and respect for Facebook users.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The emails were discovered by a probe from the\u00a0Federal Trade Commission <\/strong>and were later reported by the WSJ.<\/p>\n Recently, Zuckerberg has been pushing privacy for Facebook. He wants to add more tools so users can be protected on Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook privacy push<\/p>\r\n Read now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n Although some were inclined to believe him, this news suggests that Zuckerberg is only doing so because Facebook was caught with its pants down.<\/p>\n Your privacy and personal data should be your top concern when you’re on social media, and Facebook’s users deserve to be on a platform where the company has the same concern.<\/p>\n Facebook\u2019s future plans could eliminate all your privacy<\/p>\r\n Read Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2012, Facebook knew about an app that could steal millions of users’ data and did nothing to fix the problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9180,"featured_media":141800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1059,2092,1908,1624,2091],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-141798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-scandal","tag-personal-data","tag-privacy","tag-zuckerberg","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325880,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141798\/revisions\/325880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141798"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=141798"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=141798"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=141798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ![](\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/facebook-thumbs-down-192.jpg\")
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