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Facebook opens Privacy Check-up Cafes to salvage its reputation

Giving Londoners a crash course in Online privacy settings

As one revelation follows the next, the big techs have been steamrolled with data privacy issues lately. Mainstream media has lashed out at the companies for manipulating their users’ data without their prior consent or knowledge.

Microsoft was the latest to be blamed for the review of third party contractors of its Skype calls & Cortana recorded videos. Online publication Motherboard has now reported that the software giant’s contractors are also snooping in on the audio of Xbox users, apparently in an effort to improve the console’s voice command features.

Let’s go back to the company which has an absolutely abysmal record of protecting user privacy — Facebook — paid hundreds of contractual workers to listen to your voice recordings from its Messenger App. Not that this is any different from the malpractices of the other big techs, the social media giant has a long history of privacy breaches starting from the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Now in a bizarre move, to do some damage control with its over 2 billion platform users, FB has announced that it will open pop-up cafes across the UK where users can get their “privacy check-ups” along with free drinks. Five of such cafes will be opened up across the island nation with the first one welcoming visitors inside The Attendant coffee bar on Great Eastern Street in London, on August 28th and 29th.