Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
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Re: Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
#2IS THIS WHY THE DATA SERVICE WAS DOWN ALL DAY? https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18264092/facebook-instagr...
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#3IS THIS WHY THE DATA SERVICE WAS DOWN ALL DAY? https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18264092/facebook-instagr...
Not directly.
But employee burnout (and the nascent mass exodus of top talent we'll inevitably be hearing about shortly) may very well be.
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#4There has been a tremendous amount of grassroots lobbying, fundraising, and private investigation in New York over the past two years with respect to Facebook. It’s a serious area I feel Silicon Valley has abdicated its moral obligation to stand up to its own. Hoping we can develop the evidence that comes out of this case into criminal charges for individual engineers and senior officers.
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#5It's going to be great seeing all the years of HN commenters complaining that no bankers went to jail, insist that it's bad policy for software engineers to be held criminally liable.
Re: Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
#6Ok, so those partnerships were basically allowing Samsung and others to build Facebook app on their phones (i.e. allowing alternative client).
Would this means that it will be criminal to allow companies to create alternative clients? That is really interesting development.
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#7It's going to be great seeing all the years of HN commenters complaining that no bankers went to jail, insist that it's bad policy for software engineers to be held criminally liable.
Meanwhile I hope this thread stays at the top of HN for the day to see how the thread summary reads over at n-gate
Re: Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
#8IS THIS WHY THE DATA SERVICE WAS DOWN ALL DAY? https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18264092/facebook-instagr...
Not directly. But employee burnout (and the nascent mass exodus of top talent we'll inevitably be hearing about shortly) may very well be.
Perhaps related: the frequency of FB Production Engineer recruiters reaching out to me has increased in the last couple months.
I simply can't sell myself to an immoral organization where, I’m afraid, any concerns of mine would be drowned out, ignored, or silenced by the incumbent powers at Facebook that are dead set on their current path.
There might be good engineers at Facebook trying desperately to change the culture, but I encourage others to resist fighting the (in my view futile) good fight.
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#9Create a culture that is so fixated on wealth above all else and this is what happens. When everyone around you is judging you based on what you have and on the successes you've achieved, what motivation does one have to behave morally? God died and the dollar took its place. I know we will one day look back on this in complete confusion as to how we just watched things so clearly destructive destabilize the country. It's always hard to understand how these things happen when looking at history without being in the contemporary madness of the times.
Re: Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
#10It's going to be great seeing all the years of HN commenters complaining that no bankers went to jail, insist that it's bad policy for software engineers to be held criminally liable.
If in order to get equal liability we have to _really_ advocate for our interests.