Recently, the US social media giant --- Facebook's global network service was interrupted for up to six hours. During this period, more than 1.5 billion Facebook users' data was sold. And Facebook's stock price plummeted by 6% during intraday trading, and the personal wealth of its founder, Zuckerberg , evaporated more than $6 billion a day. As soon as the incident occurred, many people speculated that it was caused by a hacker attack. In response to various suspicions on the Internet, Facebook officially issued a statement saying: "This large-scale outage is caused by an engineer's wrong instruction and the connection is disconnected." At the same time, Zuckerberg pointed out that "The company puts profits on user safety. “It’s not true!”
user data leaks frequently, Facebook is facing a crisis of trust
This is not the first time that Facebook is due to users Data leakage issues have been pushed to the center of public opinion. A few years ago, in its cooperation with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook shared the data of its 80 million users with the company, but Cambridge Analytica applied these user data to political advertisements in the 2016 U.S. election; and this year In April, the news site Business Insider reported that someone posted information on 533 million Facebook platform users for free on low-level hacker forums. The information was very detailed, including the user's number, name, home address, date of birth, and so on. And the published user data involves 106 countries, including 32 million users in the United States, 11 million users in the UK, and 6 million users in India. As soon as the report came out, the Irish Data Protection Commission investigated Facebook.
has a problem for the first time,Everyone is still willing to accept the sincere apology from the accident party. However, data is frequently leaked, personal information security issues cannot be guaranteed, and users' trust in the platform will drop sharply. Once an enterprise faces a crisis of trust, its long-term development goals are bound to be frustrated.
Multi-party joint efforts to help solve the problem of privacy information leakage
In today's era, data is capital, and only when companies master data can they win at the starting line. Most of these data are obtained from users of their own platforms, and users boldly submit personal information to the platform, fully demonstrating their trust in the platform. Therefore, companies with abundant user data must put "protection of personal information" in the first place, constantly improve their platform systems, check and maintain them, and use their own technical strength to defend these data, so as to truly be worthy of the trust of users.
In addition, ordinary users should also pay attention. If they find that someone is selling user information, they should stop it in time and hand it over to the relevant departments for processing. All parties work together to solve the problem of privacy information leakage!
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