Bloomberg:

Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of Facebook 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, Bloomberg News reports.

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. That database was closed on Wednesday after Bloomberg alerted Facebook to the problem and Facebook contacted Amazon. Facebook shares pared their gains after the Bloomberg News report.

Even if you say “I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to worry about.“…this is one of the biggest data repositories in the world where no one is bothering to properly secure or control it.

Facebook continues to be a beast we control, a beast we created, and a beast we never stop feeding. Ugh.