Facebook. Today the American company exceeded the limits of the embarrassing after it started asking one of the users to provide the passwords for logging in to personal emails, something that no company should do. The even bigger problem is that Facebook accessed people's emails too stealing contact book without them knowing, the practice being officially recognized by the Americans, following all the very harsh criticism from the press.
Facebook. Today's major issue comes just weeks after the company admitted that its employees had access to the passwords of hundreds of millions of accounts without people knowing what was happening. The new problem appears completely randomly for users who have registered accounts within the social network, Facebook unexpectedly asking them for the password from the email address used to create their account, regardless of when this happened.
Facebook. CAREFUL! ACCESSES YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT YOU KNOWING
Facebook. The company says that it would not store the passwords for the emails used by users to create an account in the social network, but with them it has full access to people's accounts, and to life outside the network. Facebook first blocks users' accounts, and then asks for the password from their personal email to allow them access to the social network account, and it is not known how many millions or hundreds of millions of people are affected.
That's beyond sketchy. They should not be taking your password or handling your password in the background. If that's what's required to sign up with Facebook, you're better off not being on Facebook. This is bad on so many levels. It's an absurd overreach by Facebook and a sleazy attempt to trick people into uploading data about their contacts to Facebook as the price of signing up. Even when you consent to uploading contact information to Facebook, you should never have to put in your email password to do it.
Facebook. The Americans say that there would also be the option to use a code sent via SMS to a phone number, but only for those who have a phone number used as a two-step authentication method. What Facebook is doing is completely inappropriate, forcing users to provide their password for a personal email address in order to be able to continue using the account within the social network, practically holding that account hostage to receive the password.
Facebook. I don't know how many people still haven't realized how dirty Facebook's tactics are, but maybe evidence like this can shed some light on the current situation.