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Meta fined for collecting data on gay and transgender Facebook users
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Meta fined for collecting data on gay and transgender Facebook users

Facebook does not respect security measures

PIPC said these actions were in direct breach of the Personal Data Protection Act, which states that:

“Information about thoughts, beliefs, political opinions, sex life, etc. it is sensitive information that must be strictly protected.”

In addition to the main breach, the PIPC also criticized Facebook for not taking safety measures such as deleting or blocking websites that are not in service or unmanaged, but not removing the unused account recovery page .

This, it said, allowed hackers to submit fake IDs for those pages and then request password resets to gain access. Meta approved these requests “without sufficient verification of fake IDs”, the personal information of 10 Facebook users was leaked.