Facebook acquires PrivateCore, aims to better secure your data on its servers
Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is buying online security company PrivateCore for an undisclosed amount of money. It's almost certainly not Instagram or Oculus levels of cash, never mind the tens of billions thrown at Whatsapp, but it will, apparently, help Facebook secure all of the data — the personal, private social data that all of us who use Facebook choose to share with them — on its servers. Oded Horovitz, CEO, posted the following on PrivateCore's website:
Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan also elaborated on the deal:
Post by Joe Sullivan.
Given the value of the data — again, our data — stored on Facebook, it's great to see them paying more attention to security. No system is ever foolproof, but that just means everyone has to work harder to protect them, all the time.
Do you share a lot of personal information with Facebook? If so, how important is their data security to you?
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