Instagram rolls out Checkout payment feature, data handled by Facebook

From https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/18/facebook-stored-instagram-passwords-plain-text/

Last month, news broke that Facebook employees had access to up to 600 million user passwords, which had been stored in plain text. Today, the company revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were also stored in a readable format. An internal investigation determined the stored passwords were not internally abused or improperly accessed, but this adds to the growing list of privacy issues the company seems to be racking up.

Apr 18, 2019permalink

From https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/in-new-gaffe-facebook-improperly-collects-email-contacts-for-1-5-million/

Facebook's privacy gaffes keep coming. On Wednesday, the social media company said it collected the stored email address lists of as many as 1.5 million users without permission. On Thursday, the company said the number of Instagram users affected by a previously reported password storage error was in the "millions," not the "tens of thousands" as previously estimated.

Apr 18, 2019permalink

Rensol

Information is handled by FB.
Should read mishandled by FB.

Mar 24, 2019permalink

Mark Turney

I know I’m being cynical ... it’s on purpose because more and more, I’m seeing time being wasted on nonsense. I know some say it’s not wasted time and something good may come of unknown outcomes and developments. But this isn’t the space program which yielded many important discoveries. The space program started in a positive direction. So much effort today just appears to me to be busy work ... not every idea deserves to see the light of day IMHO.

Mar 22, 2019permalink

vynz

Oh so it's not for photographers to sell their work then.

Mar 22, 2019permalink

cosinaphile

it takes a special brand of stupid ..........

Mar 21, 2019permalink

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/21/facebook-user-passwords-plain-text/

Facepalm du jour:

"Over 20,000 Facebook employees had access to 600 million user passwords
It will notify hundreds of millions of users after discovering credentials were stored in plain text."

Mar 21, 2019permalink

Mike FL

Phones are also not safe too as seen from today's news:

"Nokia phones caught mysteriously sending data to Chinese servers"

https://bgr.com/2019/03/21/nokia-data-breach-nokia-7-plus-sent-data-to-chinese-servers/

Mar 22, 2019permalink

sh10453

Awesome news! What more could anyone ask for!!!
Now your billing and credit card, bank account information are really, really, really safe in Mark Zucker's hands!!!

Next month news headlines:
"200 million credit card accounts, bank accounts, passwords, social security numbers, street addresses, and emails phished from Facebook and published on underground sites; after 2 weeks of silence, Facebook suggests that users should change their passwords!"

Mar 21, 2019permalink

EJ Fudd

Sharing all your banking info also handled by Facebook

Mar 21, 2019permalink

Bilbo_bobbins

well the amount of adverts/sponsors put me off using this app. It has become a market place very quickly and a reason I can't be arsed using it.

Mar 21, 2019permalink

miggylicious

instagram has now become an amazon/ebay! wow! i did not seen that coming! but the amount of users advertising/selling their products thru instagram is massive. this may in the long run kill ebay because of similar markets.

Mar 21, 2019permalink

Oh my ....
What happend to the nice place with square pictures....
Influencers.... stories.... videos.... viral things... now sales....
Maybe I know the answer: Facebook happened...
That’s how you can destroy the soul of a good unique digital service...

Mar 21, 2019permalink

cosinaphile

facebook is in the process of destroying much more than a popular digital service ..

Mar 21, 2019permalink

The previous decade was a very exiting technology wise ... Not everything is destroyed from the commercialization ... just look at the iPhone 10 Galaxy S10 ... still the same stuff no new ideas ...
And everything is made for spying on us, to keep us under control....
This site is owned by Amazon... another evilcorp...

Mar 24, 2019permalink

steviewa

More Backdoor data gathering for them to make even more money
The Shareholders are just as bad as facebook tho few have anything to say about them

Mar 20, 2019permalink

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-congress/facebook-confirms-data-sharing-with-chinese-companies-idUSKCN1J11TY

Shareholders are the problem of so many businesses ...
You get money from people who don’t understand anything about a business and want to see only money...

Mar 21, 2019permalink

Mike FL

"Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies"

But while FB CEO tried to please their communist leader, "China’s President Xi Jinping ‘turns down Mark Zuckerberg’s request to name his unborn child’ at White House dinner":

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-xi-jinping-turns-down-mark-zuckerberg-s-request-to-name-his-unborn-child-at-white-a6679156.html

Mar 21, 2019*permalink

tcphoto1

Do you seriously think that anything is secure on Facebook or Facebook owned Instagram?

Mar 20, 2019permalink

xPhoenix

Sounds safe to me, LOL. I'm sure FB will take real good care of your personal data. Why people continue to associate with the likes of FB is beyond me.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

xPhoenix

I wouldn't trust them, either, but FB has shown us time and time again that they cannot be trusted. Their site was never about social media (well, maybe when it started way back in college), but it hasn't been like that for a long time. It's about making people the product, and getting rich off it. If the sheeple can't understand that, then I guess they deserve their fate.

Mar 21, 2019permalink

capeminiol

Nice! Now you can purchase something without realizing it. Imagine a surprise package showing up at your door! Woohoo!

Mar 20, 2019permalink

gaul

Pass me the bucket...

Mar 20, 2019permalink

gaul

Evil...

Mar 20, 2019permalink

EvilCorp :P

Mar 21, 2019permalink

sirhawkeye64

That's a good laugh.... payment/data handled by Facebook... Um. No thanks. If they can't protect your personal information (demographics and basic info) how can I trust them with my credit card?

Not to mention, a lot of sites have been "destroyed" by trying to be like everyone else... being a selling platform (like FB's Marketplace... I liked FB better when it was just a social networking site where you could communicate and share pictures/posts with friends--no advertisements, no market place, etc).
But this is what social media has become--yet another avenue for online sales, thus "destroying" the original intent of social media. When I browse FB, I don't want to see ads, I want to see posts from friends/pictures posted by friends, etc. Same with IG. If for IG we must pay $12 per year for no ads or anything like that, I might consider it (I don't like subscriptions, but I do use my IG account for my photography so it's important to me to keep using it for that reason).

Mar 20, 2019*permalink

Couldn’t say it better bro!

Mar 21, 2019permalink

coreyweb

I don't like the ads and everything. And I don't really love facebook. But I will say, I actually think facebook marketplace is pretty cool/convenient for buying and selling things. I don't like that businesses and such can sell on it, but as like a much better version of an online garage sale/craigslist it's nice.

Mar 21, 2019permalink

User9759865628

Starting with when ads started appearing last year, I have posted or used Instagram less and less. What a shame!

Mar 20, 2019permalink

justmeMN

In the headline, DPR should have put "data handled by Facebook" in flashing red text. :-)

Mar 20, 2019permalink

D7000ShooterUK

What is the relevance of this article to photography apart from the fact that Instagram allows photos to be uploaded?

Mar 20, 2019permalink

TheWintermute

It informs photographers that they should stop using Instagram already.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

tripodcat

i think it's to let you know that instagram will be the new amazon and that facebook will handle all of your data, so you know it'll be safe....

Mar 20, 2019permalink

tailings

It will generate a LOT of comments because Instagram presents a continual thorn in the side for many, (for whatever reason). That means traffic for DPR, and >THAT< is the most important relevance of any DPR article.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

sirhawkeye64

Because many photographers use Instagram as a platform for being recognized and to find new leads/talent for business (in some cases). I use it for that purpose but have scaled back at how much I post and what i post.

Mar 21, 2019permalink

contadorfan

"...data handled by Facebook."

I started to write something snarky, but realized Facebook will get your data by some other means anyway.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

princecody

Starting to think Zuckerberg is the Antichrist as talked about in the Bible or works for him.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

If you believe old books then you'll believe that FB will handle your data securely.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

(unknown member)

Fly18: Clearly the latter isn't true, or he wouldn't have said what he did, idiot.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

@Chris
People like you who believe in those old books are beyond idiocy. Do you still believe in Santa too, imbecile?

Mar 21, 2019permalink

(unknown member)

Who said I believed in anything? What you are, is the atheistic equivalent of the rabid airport prosthletizers who run around shoving their belief, or in your case, an absence of belief in people's faces. Why? Likely because you're insecure, or perhaps suffer from a misplaced belief in your own superiority by latching yourself onto atheism (with likely little accomplishment in any area of substance). In either case, no one cares what your belief system is, nor will it bolster your life of relative mediocrity in the eyes of other people, so stop yapping, little man, we're not interested.

Mar 21, 2019*permalink

@Chris
"stop yapping"

Look who's taking, !mbecile?

Mar 21, 2019permalink

(unknown member)

I didn't bring my views on religion here, unnecessarily insulting people, you did. Again, it's your insecurity and unwarranted sense of superiority revealing itself. By the way, will you speak up when you see Muslims kneeling on a prayer rug in public? Of course not, because you're boldness only manifests itself in anonymity, and likely, if you are true to type, only against those who you are confident will not threaten your safety.

Mar 21, 2019*permalink

@Chris

Still yapping?

Mar 21, 2019permalink

TheGrammarFairy

So Facebook wants MORE of my data so that it can exploit me further? Why Mark, why?

Mar 20, 2019permalink

KrisAK

Facebook is the new Tobacco.

#FacebookIsTheNewTobacco

Mar 20, 2019*permalink

tailings

Nah, Facebook is MUUUCCCCHHHHH easier to quit. Go ahead, try it.

Cigarette free since 2010 (an extremely difficult task I am very proud of).
Facebook free since 2015 (I simply got bored of FB, never even needed to try to quit. Certainly nothing approaching 'withdrawal').

Mar 20, 2019permalink

Brian P Smith

Yeah... no thank you.

Mar 20, 2019permalink

knoxphoto

What cut of the payment are they taking?

Mar 20, 2019permalink

Bjoern Wunderlich

we should feel bad - then buy - consume - at any price

Mar 20, 2019permalink

Copal Fit

Don't just post your pictures on IG, you have to buy.....

Mar 20, 2019permalink