(FILES) This file photo taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook in Nantes, France. Facebook on November 27, 2017 said stepping up the use of artificial intelligence to identify members of the leading social network who may be thinking of suicide. Software will look for clues in posts or even in videos being streamed at Facebook Live, then fire off reports to human reviewers and speed up alerts to responders trained to help, according to the social network. / AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE
Facebook Inc user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t.
Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing servers. The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how unsecure and widely disseminated Facebook users’ information is online, companies that control that information at every step still haven’t done enough to seal up private data.
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