London is welcoming a new café to its pop-up scene at the end of this month – from Facebook.
The Facebook Café will be a pop-up coffee shop located inside The Attendant on Great Eastern Street and will be open on August 28 and 29.
The London outpost will be one of five Facebook Café’s popping up across the UK between August 28 and September 5 to help encourage Brits to run simple privacy check-ups.
The café will give out free drinks from its select menu to anyone who takes part in a privacy checkup.
Facebook has said the café is a result of a recent poll that stated 27 per cent of Londoners don’t know how to customise their social media privacy settings.
Privacy has been at the forefront of Facebook’s ethos after the Cambridge Analytica scandal saw the tech giant allegedly mishandle user data.
Just last month the US Financial Trade Commission announced it is looking to fine Facebook a cool $5billion for its privacy violations.
Yesterday we reported an investigation by Bloomberg found that the company had paid hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe audio clips people made using Facebook Messenger – fuelling the long-held conspiracy theory that Facebook is listening to us through our phones.
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