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“Facebook places too much burden on its users. Users are expected to navigate Facebook’s complex web of settings in search of possible opt-outs,” wrote the authors, as quoted by The Guardian. “Facebook’s default settings related to behavioural profiling or Social Ads, for example, are particularly problematic.”
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Facebook has also went on to publish a wider-ranging op-ed in the Financial Times criticizing overreaching European privacy regulators. News of the lawsuit, which is expected to go to trial on Thursday, June 18, follows several months after a security researcher discovered a serious privacy vulnerability that could potentially allow hackers to access the private photos of millions of Facebook users.“Over the past week, a team of privacy experts and engineers at Facebook analyzed the claims presented in a recent report authored by a group of researchers in Belgium. Our findings: The report gets it wrong multiple times in asserting how Facebook uses information to provide our service to more than a billion people around the world,” Facebook said in its post.