Facebook 2018 Year in Review

Facebook 2018 Year in Review highlights the top ways people are being exploited on Facebook and its subsidiaries like Instagram. Unsurprisingly, most of them are pretty depressing, confirming what we all already knew from previous years – Facebook can’t be fixed.

Reddit user fantastic_comment compiled this information and the post was originally published on Reddit – original link: https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/acuct5/facebook_2018_year_in_review/

Ironic that it was posted on Reddit, since Reddit also had numerous missteps in 2018. Reddit just isn’t nearly as bad as Facebook.

Enjoy!

January

Date	Article
2018-01-30	More than 110 child-health advocates have called on Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to pull the firm’s Messenger Kids app aimed at under 13s, warning of the dangers of social media for children
2018-01-24	Facebook should be regulated like a cigarette company, because of the addictive and harmful properties of social media, according to Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff
2018-01-23	Facebook enables ‘fake news’ by reliance on digital advertising
2018-01-11	Facebook patents tracking method using dust on camera lenses

February

Date	Article
2018-02-16	Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court
2018-02-12	Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court
2018-02-08	Brazil’s biggest newspaper, Folha de S Paulo, has announced that it will no longer publish content on its Facebook page, accusing the social media giant of encouraging fake news and become ‘inhospitable terrain for … quality content’

March

Date	Article
2018-03-29	Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones without explicitly notifying users
2018-03-29	Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
2018-03-28	Facebook increases lobbying presence on Capitol Hill before Zuckerberg testimony
2018-03-26	Facebook tracking is present in 41% of the most popular Android apps
2018-03-20	WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton tell us “It is time delete facebook”
2018-03-17	87 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
2018-03-16	Facebook has been forced to apologise after it spent hours suggesting sexual videos and child abuse content
2018-03-14	The UK’s data protection watchdog has concluded that WhatsApp’s sharing of user data with its parent company Facebook would have been illegal
2018-03-13	‘Facebook has now turned into a beast’, says United Nations investigator, calling network a vehicle for ‘acrimony, dissension and conflict’
2018-03-09	Facebook Launches Another Deceptive ‘Security’ App Designed to Siphon Your Data. Updated: Facebook Deletes App
2018-03-05	Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?

April

Date	Article
2018-04-30	WhatsApp founder Jan Koum announced he was leaving Facebook amid user data disputes
2018-04-19	Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
2018-04-18	Facebook to start asking permission for facial recognition in GDPR push
2018-04-17	Facebook admits tracking users and non-users off-site
2018-04-16	Facebook ad feature claims to predict user’s future behaviour
2018-04-11	Zuckerberg being grilled on Capitol Hill – Day 2
2018-04-10	Zuckerberg being grilled on Capitol Hill – Day 1
2018-04-05	Facebook secretly deleted messages Mark Zuckerberg sent on Messenger
2018-04-05	Facebook investigated by Australian privacy watchdog over suspected data-sharing
2018-04-05	Facebook admits it discussed sharing user data for medical research project
2018-04-04	Facebook refuses to promise GDPR-style privacy protection for US users
2018-04-03	Revealed: Facebook hate speech exploded in Myanmar during Rohingya crisis
2018-04-03	Facebook apologises for storing draft videos users thought they had deleted

May

Date	Article
2018-05-25	Max Schrems NGO NOYB launches first legal cases under GDPR. Complaints have been filed against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp within hours of the new GDPR data protection law taking effect
2018-05-24	Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps. Company gathered data from texts and photos of users and their friends, court case claims
2018-05-22	Mark Zuckerberg dodges question from European Parliament on Facebook ‘shadow profiles’
2018-05-22	Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg meets with the European Parliament
2018-05-11	Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over collection of texts and call logs
2018-05-03	Facebook harvested 3.5 billion Instagram images without warning their owners until today

June

Date	Article
2018-06-27	Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone’s Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV
2018-06-27	Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council
2018-06-21	7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
2018-06-12	Facebook admitted that it collects information from and about computers, phones, and connected devices, including mouse
2018-06-07	Facebook apologizes for privacy glitch that affected up to 14 million users
2018-06-05	Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence
2018-06-03	Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

July

Date	Article
2018-07-23	Rubens nudes fall foul of Facebook censors (VIDEO)
2018-07-05	Facebook labels declaration of independence as ‘hate speech’
2018-07-02	Facebook gave 61 businesses including Nike, Spotify, UPS and dating app Hinge special rights to access user data after blocking such access more broadly

August

Date	Article
2018-08-27	A report from the United Nations called Facebook a “useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate” in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and that the company’s response to the crisis was “slow and ineffective.”
2018-08-23	Facebook violates Apple’s data-gathering rules, pulls Onavo VPN from App Store
2018-08-17	Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act
2018-08-06	Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers as it seeks to boost user engagement
2018-08-02	‘It’s ridiculous. It’s Picasso’: Facebook reviewing anti-nudity policy after blocking Montreal museum ad

September

Date	Article
2018-09-28	Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach
2018-09-28	Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users
2018-09-26	Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
2018-09-25	Facebook failing to protect moderators from mental trauma, lawsuit claims
2018-09-24	Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced that they were leaving the company they had sold to Facebook – “no one ever leaves a job because everything’s awesome.”
2018-09-21	Instagram’s new TV service recommended videos of potential child abuse

October

Date	Article
2018-10-30	We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
2018-10-25	Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
2018-10-19	Facebook inflated ad metrics up to 900 percent. Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted, court documents have claimed
2018-10-12	Facebook says 14m accounts had personal data stolen in recent breach
2018-10-10	Facebook Is Still Thirsty for Your Health Data
2018-10-05	Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull web analytics from Firefox and Safari
2018-10-04	Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook

November

Date	Article
2018-11-24	Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions
2018-11-21	Facebook criticised for post promoting child bride auction. Company failed to remove post that informed users of auction of 17-year-old girl for several days
2018-11-17	Instagram bug inadvertently exposed some users’ passwords
2018-11-14	Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack George Soros
2018-11-13	Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile
2018-11-12	WhatsApp struggling to control fake news in India, researchers say
2018-11-12	Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data
2018-11-06	Facebook admits failings over incitement to violence in Myanmar
2018-11-02	Facebook Allowed Advertisers to Target Users Interested in “White Genocide” — Even in Wake of Pittsburgh Massacre
2018-11-02	Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale

December

Date	Article
2018-12-29	How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook – Report by Privacy International
2018-12-20	WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem
2018-12-19	The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to harvest the personal information of millions of people without their consent
2018-12-19	Facebook users cannot avoid location-based ads, investigation finds
2018-12-18	Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed
2018-12-15	Facebook is being used to silence bloggers critical of Vietnam’s government, according to Reporters Without Borders
2018-12-14	Facebook disclosed that a bug may have exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users people had uploaded but chosen not to post
2018-12-10	Facebook Filed A Patent To Calculate Your Future Location based on your historical location data and other parameters
2018-12-07	Italian regulator fines Facebook £8.9m for misleading users
2018-12-06	Facebook emails reveal discussions over call log consent. Employees discussed how to minimise amount of consent they would need to ask for
2018-12-05	Facebook discussed cashing in on user data, emails suggest. Social network staff apparently conversed about removing data restrictions for big ad spenders

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