Millions Of Facebook Records Found On Amazon Cloud Servers

Facebook shares tumbled into the red after Bloomberg reported that user data is still showing up in places it shouldn’t.

As Bloomberg reports, researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly on Amazon.com’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.

Coming just days after Zuckerberg urged the government to take over regulating his responsibilities and remove his accountabilities, Bloomberg notes that in one instance, Mexico City-based media company Cultura Colectiva openly stored 540 million records on Facebook users, including identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names.

The problem of accidental public storage could be more extensive than those two instances. UpGuard found 100,000 open Amazon-hosted databases for various types of data, some of which it expects aren’t supposed to be public.

A Facebook spokesperson said that the company’s policies prohibit storing Facebook information in a public database. Once it was alerted to the issue, Facebook worked with Amazon to take down the databases, the spokesperson said, adding that Facebook is committed to working with the developers on its platform to protect people’s data.

Bloomberg points out that this latest example shows how the data security issues can be amplified by another trend: the transition many companies have made from running operations predominantly in their own data centers to cloud-computing services operated by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet’s Google, and others.

And in the wake of this latest debacle - and last year's security breaches - it is quite possible that, like Myspace and Friendster, Facebook is not long for this world…

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-03/zuckd-again-millions-facebook-records-found-amazon-cloud-servers

Hussein celebrates Lori Lightfoot's victory: 'Chicago's best days are still ahead'

Former President Barack Obama congratulated Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot (D) on Wednesday, calling her win “historic.”

“I know that with our city’s heart and Lori’s leadership, Chicago’s best days are still ahead,” Obama tweeted.

Lightfoot, a former assistant U.S. attorney, was elected Tuesday with about 74 percent of the vote.

She will become Chicago’s first female African-American mayor and the Windy City will be the largest municipality in the U.S. with an openly gay leader.

Lightfoot will succeed Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama’s White House chief of staff from 2009 to 2010, when she takes office in May.

Five Democrats running for president in 2020 also congratulated her on her win, including South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and Miramar, Fla., Mayor Wayne Messam.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/437222-obama-celebrates-lori-lightfoots-victory-chicagos-best-days-are-still

No shit Chicago's best days are still ahead….

Analyst says Trump hasn't capitalized on low black unemployment

Washington Post data analyst David Byler told Hill.TV on Wednesday that President Trump has not highlighted low African-American unemployment outside of his majority white GOP base, resulting in a lost opportunity for the president.

"He hasn't really tried to take that message as much to other groups, and expand his coalition," Byler told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."

"I think that there are some real strategic mistakes that the president makes, and maybe that's a generous way to phrase it," Byler added. "He could try to tout the economic numbers, but I think there are some other barriers in his messaging."

The president's critics have said that the low numbers for black unemployment are the result of a gradual economic recovery that started in 2009.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/437218-analyst-says-trump-hasnt-taken-message-of-lower-black

POTUS isn't 'capitalizing' on this because HE ACTUALLY FVCKING CARES!