Among other
violations of user trust, the commission found that Facebook had promised users that third - party apps like FarmVille would have access only to the information that they needed to operate.
While Facebook's service is clearly under its own control,
questions of user trust naturally arise when data is altered without user knowledge.
But the changes were met with swift criticism by some users and privacy advocates who called them a breach
of user trust by a company already under fire for how it collects and uses customers» data.
I think this is an
abuse of users trust, regardless of whether Facebook technically broke certain countries data protection laws.
The reasons Apple gives here and its response are reasonable, but it will take a reputational beating over this and has lost an
amount of user trust that it will have to regain.
He continued to say that giants like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix have had faced glitches when it comes to data breaches and
loss of user trust.
They are in the midst of integrating with a variety of third - party service providers to bring new and emerging applications into a realm of usefulness that can only be achieved with native functionality and a high
degree of user trust.
The announcement came after TechCrunch revealed the day before that Facebook had been secretly deleting old messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg from recipients» inboxes, sparking uproar over
breaches of user trust and double standards for the privacy of Facebook executives versus its users.
As the users weren't notified, TechCrunch says this raises the question of whether it was a «breach
of user trust», to which Zuckerberg declined to comment.
Cambridge Analytica and the resulting maelstrom dominated headlines in the past week, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed full - page ads in newspapers apologising profusely for the breach
of user trust.
However, because normal users can't unsend messages and Facebook didn't disclose to recipients that it was deleting messages from their inboxes, many view the whole thing as a breach
of user trust.