Social media giant Facebook has been embroiled in quite a lot of controversies in the last one year alone, starting off with the Cambridge Analytica data collection scandal, to a new report now that the company is asking some new users for passwords to their email accounts as a means of verifying their identity.
The company also clarified that people presented with this option could always choose to authenticate by other means, such as their phone number or email address. However, those options are hidden inside the “Need Help?” button that isn’t exactly the clearest way of letting a user know that they have other options for verifying their identity on the platform.
