Facebook backs away from asking for some users' email passwords

Facebook can't seem to escape concerns over its handling of user privacy. 

Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant faced more criticism over the weekend for apparently asking some new users — who'd registered with email addresses from sites like Yandex or GMX — to enter their personal email passwords during the sign-up process. As a result of this latest brouhaha, Facebook decided to end the practice, a company spokesperson confirmed to Mashable.

The policy came under scrutiny on Sunday when the cybersecurity-focused Twitter account e-sushi pointed out how potentially dangerous it could be, especially given another recent scandal in which it turned out the site was storing passwords in plain text.  Read more...