Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords
It is never, ever advisable for a user to give out their email password to anyone, except possibly to a 100 percent verified account administrator when no other option exists .
Email accounts tend to be primary gateways into the rest of the web, because a valid one is usually necessary to register accounts on everything from banks and financial institutions to social media accounts and porn sites.
They obviously also contain copies of every un-deleted message ever sent to or from that address, as well as additional information like contact lists.
Facebook noted in the statement that those users presented with this screen could opt out of sharing passwords and use another verification method such as email or phone.
While Facebook said that it did not store the passwords, it has also used ostensible security features such as two-factor authentication as a pretext to spam users phones with text messages and wrangle up phone numbers for targeted advertising. Facebook has also in the past issued contradictory statements about what kind of data it collects , launched pseudo-VPN apps that vacuumed up user data, and seemingly obfuscated how users could control whether it obtains call and text data.
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