Facebook Sued for illegally Scanning Users' Private Messages

Facebook is in trouble once again regarding its users’ privacy.

Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in Northern California over allegations that the company systematically scans its users’ private messages on the social network without their consent and makes the profit by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers.
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According to the lawsuit filing, Facebook might

CVE-2016-1847

OpenGL, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site.

CVE-2016-1848

QuickTime in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted file.

CVE-2016-1849

The “Clear History and Website Data” feature in Apple Safari before 9.1.1, as used in iOS before 9.3.2 and other products, mishandles the deletion of browsing history, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging read access to a Safari directory.

CVE-2016-1850

SceneKit in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted file.

CVE-2016-1851

The Screen Lock feature in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 mishandles password profiles, which allows physically proximate attackers to reset expired passwords in the lock-screen state via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2016-1852

Siri in Apple iOS before 9.3.2 does not block data detectors within results in the lock-screen state, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive contact and photo information via unspecified vectors.