New York investigates Facebook for stealing data from 1.5 million users

The Attorney General of New York has announced an investigation against Facebook to be appropriate, without permission, the contact calendars of 1.5 million users of his social network, after asking them to confirm their address E-mail.

The prosecutor's office opens this procedure because the company of Mark Zuckerberg would be constituted "Hundreds of millions" of email accounts incorrectly from there, direct personalized advertising within the social network.

By entering this space, new users have received a confirmation email to certify that this address belonged to them.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor, in this procedure, some users should have given up their pbadword, which allowed them to access their calendars and get their contacts.

"It's time for Facebook to be responsible for managing the personal information of its users," said New York State Attorney General Letitia James in a statement.

"Facebook has proven many times a lack of respect for the information of the users, at the same time that he took advantage of such data. The announcement by Facebook of the compilation of 1.5 million (…) calendars is the last sign that it does not take seriously its role of protecting our personal information "said the prosecutor.

This is not the first time the New York office opposes technology for data processing: in January of this year, James announced another investigation, this time against Apple, for failure from his "Facetime" program, which allowed you to listen to the users of a group call before accepting or rejecting the call.

And, in 2018, he acted against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is precisely because of this case today that we knew that Canada denounced California societybecause this country guarantees that the social network refuses to comply with its privacy laws and to badume the "responsibility to protect" information from Canadians, after determining that it " had committed serious offenses ".