Surprise: Facebook just leaked data from more than 267 million US users

[Andy Meek]

Two bits of Facebook news that both popped at week's end should underscore how much awesome power the biggest social network in the world still wields as the decade draws to a close. Not only that, but how expansive its ambitions remain -- and, correspondingly, how embarrassingly bad the company still is, after all this time, at handling the privacy and security of its users' data.

The two pieces of news we're referring to are as follows:

1) More than a quarter of a billion US Facebook users, unfortunately, have had their data (names and phone numbers) exposed in a newly reported Facebook data leak.

2) Also, Facebook is working on building an operating system of its own so that the company can wean itself off of reliance on, primarily, Google

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