Cybersecurity

Facebook will now tell you if GCHQ is spying on you

Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos hasannounced that the social network will now inform users if it believes their account has been compromised by a government agency.

Stamos writes that "while we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored".

He added that such attacks "tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others", meaning that users who are thus compromised should take great care in addressing them.