Why people don't believe in Facebook and Google?
Users are losing confidence in big companies such as Google and Facebook. Currently, users have the least confidence in technology companies. Because some events have happened for some days.
Ten days ago, Facebook acknowledged that data of five million users were unsuccessful. The information is captured by using Facebook security. The hackers got the chance to attack Facebook through a feature named "View As". Users can see how their account looks to others through view as. It's known through the advantages of how Facebook Friends treat with one another. The infected user's accounts are automatically logged out and re-login requests.
According to a report in Forbes online, Facebook authorities couldn't give a clear idea about the user's actions in these incidents and couldn't find out who was involved in the recent incident handling of information. Even, what kind of information was taken, they couldn't say that also.
This such an incident is not for the first time. Earlier in this year of April month, 870 million users data from Facebook accounts were hacked. The political consultancy firm Cambridge Analyst has grabbed the information unofficially from Facebook, said Facebook. Facebook hasn't warned users about that incident.
Google was very cautious about the Facebook data scandal so they didn't disclose the security of Google Plus in March. On Monday, the information about Google Plus was unaffected. Reports of news agency Reuters reported that data of five million users from Google Plus was unsuccessful. Google's parent organization Alfabet decided to stop their Google Plus service due to its failure. The Google Plus authority said, more than five lac Google Plus users information was lost to hundreds of outsider developers. So, the customer version of Google Plus (consumer edition) is being discontinued. Google Plus is making the policy of data exchange more difficult.
Although Google acknowledged the issue, it has been holding for a while. Google says that, from their site, developers had the opportunity to get information. But there are concerns that the software can exploit the software and the miscreants can capture the information.
Generally, users are expecting to have their information safe in large companies like Facebook and Google. They tell Google their location information and the details of their choice of Facebook. This allows Google and Facebook users to show ads according to their preferences. But it proves that companies like Google and Facebook aren't protecting user information.
Apart from these technology companies, which company should you believe? Amazon is proud of its security. Apple also has a reputation for its security system. In a survey conducted by Survey Monkey and Unicode in April, a user is more trusted to protect personal information than a user, who is asked. Only two percent of users named Apple and Amazon. Facebook and Google's names emerge as the least trusted organization in the survey.
Apple's authorities have long sought to protect user information. But there is also a discussion on how to assist their law enforcers.
Apart from this, the scandal of using China's "Spy Chips" is also heard on Apple and Amazon devices.
Experts say cyber attacks and hacks will continue to happen. But it seems to be creating confusion about technology companies. If Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon have to maintain user trust, then the security of their information must be confirmed beforehand. If any event happens, then the user will be able to quickly tell. But now the regulator has decided to make a lot of fines so that the information security of users will improve somewhat. But trust the organization, it depends on the user.
-Wamama Wadud Rafa(translate)
-Bishajit Sarkar(editor)
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