A Facebook Crackdown, Amazon Facial Recognition, and More Security News This Week

As happens infrequently--but definitely not never--Apple wrestled with an embarrassing and problematic security bug this week in its iOS FaceTime group calling feature. The flaw was bad enough that Apple took the drastic step of pulling group FaceTime functionality altogether. A full fix will come next week. Meanwhile, Facebook faced criticism for paying users as young as 13 to download a mobile research app that gave the company invasive access to all sorts of user data and activity, including web browsing. The app didn't meet Apple's privacy standards for iOS, and Facebook was distributing it through a loophole in the platform. Google was soon found to be doing roughly the same thing; Apple revoked both of their enterprise certificates.