Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
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Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#2Does anyone really believe that FB wants to figure out what went wrong? For some reason, I imagine it playing out like the "Top Men" scene from Indiana Jones.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#3Does anyone really believe that FB wants to figure out what went wrong? For some reason, I imagine it playing out like the "Top Men" scene from Indiana Jones.
Zuck will put on the Hoodie of Credibility and promise a Full Investigation. Sheryl will invite others to Lean In. Staff will nervously finger their stock options and ponder their vesting schedules.
Having said that I don't really want them to fix it so I'm being a touch cynical.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#4> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. Grewal is expected to explain the background of the case, which involves the user profiles of as many as 50 million people being used by Cambridge Analytica as part of its ad targeting efforts during the 2016 election. Grewal is also expected to take questions via a polling feature found on the meeting’s internal event page.
Why is being run by the head of their general counsel? Because this isn't about addressing employees' concerns or addressing the issue. It's about making sure that everyone at the company has a shared understanding of Facebook's legal stance on CA.
In a more pessimistic light, that might include an understanding of what FB will do to you as an employee if you publicly disagree with their narrative.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#5> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel.
What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#6And if you ask a question, your name will be taken down.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#7> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Apparently he recused himself from FB trials during the time that FB was interested in hiring him in 2016: https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/13/facebook-hires-u-s-magis...
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#8The first sign of a sinking ship is information starts leaking. Thats what seems to be happening with facebook.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#9Does anyone really believe that FB wants to figure out what went wrong? For some reason, I imagine it playing out like the "Top Men" scene from Indiana Jones.
Zuck will put on the Hoodie of Credibility and promise a Full Investigation. Sheryl will invite others to Lean In. Staff will nervously finger their stock options and ponder their vesting schedules. Having said that I don't really want them to fix it so I'm being a touch cynical.
> I don't really want them to fix it
Any particular reason for saying so?
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#10It's still a little unclear to me what Facebook did wrong here. (Besides suspending the whistleblowers account, which seems like a dumb move.)
Is it that they collect too much data? We've known that they been doing that for years.
Is it that they allow apps to read not only your data but your friends data? That's not a surprise either.
So some company somewhere figured out a way to abuse these already known parts of Facebook in a way that already violates the their ToS.
What should/could they have reasonably done differently that didn't require changing their entire business model?