It is absolutely obscene how much of a breach of trust and decency these are.
Facebook still hasn't fully come clean because they knew they were doing unsavory activities and just wanted to not get caught and keep getting away with it.
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#12Whoa! This makes sense now.
"and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages"
When I watched 21 on Netflix, Facebook Messenger on my phone suggested to play blackjack, literally the hour after.
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#13They never sold user data for cash, but the monerary value of what they would have gained in network effects would have had measurable value, or they would not have done it.
Time to pay the piper!
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#14> With most of the partnerships, Mr. Satterfield said, the F.T.C. agreement did not require the social network to secure users’ consent before sharing data because Facebook considered the partners extensions of itself — service providers that allowed users to interact with their Facebook friends.
Wow, this seems like yet another contortion to get out of asking the user what they want.
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#15Would MZ ever face criminal charges?
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#16Would MZ ever face criminal charges?
> Would MZ ever face criminal charges?
He's lied to Congress. He's lied to half of Europe. (Or blown them off.) He's knowingly directed the violation of a federal consent decree and several EU directives. He presides over a platform profiting from mass atrocities in multiple countries.
There's plenty to go after him with. The only things protecting him are his standing and lack of unexpected criminality.
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#17I'm so glad I left that place. I always had concerns but I had no idea the greed and abuse of users was so entrenched. Working in infra you don't find out about this kind of stuff.
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#18“Among the revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patien…
> Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread.
At this point it’s hard to dispute that at Facebook “private” is synonymous with “public” for most practical purposes.
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#19Whoa! This makes sense now. "and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages" When I watched 21 on Netflix, Facebook Messenger on my phone suggested to play blackjack, literally the hour after.
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#20“Among the revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patien…
> Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread. At this point it’s hard to dispute that at Facebook “private” is synonymous with “public” for most practical purposes.
Shared under NDA with business relationships is not “public” for the common use of the term. Although I agree with your sentiment, your statement isn’t really accurate. Otherwise I would be able to read Spotify users’ facebook DMs, and I can’t.