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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 month ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And these are the people who demand id to get back into your account if they find activity they deem suspicious.

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, had basically a throw away account for the occasional thing that basically required a Facebook account, and then I guess because I never posted anything they locked my account and demanded ID. Hell no.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.

Nope, it's not worth that level of privacy invasion.