Buried in the article, but not just Netflix, Spotify as well.
The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
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#12So it's true that just talking to anybody about anything automatically triggers a flag in some server somewhere.
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#13I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages. It also SOUNDED to me like the article was claiming they did so AFTER Meta introduced "end-to-end encryption" (which would ALSO mean that they were lying about offering end-to-end encryption). Am…
I find the article quite confusing and unclear to be honest. Are there any other sources?
This is the original NYT article from 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva... "Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed."
Facebook promised E2E at the end of 2023.
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#14Gonna give it like two weeks before tech bosses posit that users don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private messages
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#15Cue the FCC for yet another toothless Meta consent decree.
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#16I don't recall this potential bombshell (maybe because it was shortly before a Christmas, and the NYT headline looked like just more of the same ol'):
> And in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."
2018-12-18 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/report-facebook-...
2018-12-18 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
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#17Two things are truly horrifying if this is true. 1. Just how normalized this behavior has become in Silicon Valley upper management circles. 2. That this has not gotten out earlier. Hundreds or thousands of employees at both companies could have reported this to the FTC or elsewhere.
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Re: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
#18I don't recall this potential bombshell (maybe because it was shortly before a Christmas, and the NYT headline looked like just more of the same ol'): > And in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ pr…
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#19I'm not clear whether I understood what the article is claiming. It's clear they claim that Meta shared customer's direct messages with a business partner without notifying the individuals who sent and received the messages. It also SOUNDED to me like the article was claiming they did so AFTER Meta introduced "end-to-end encryption" (which would ALSO mean that they were lying about offering end-to-end encryption). Am…
The cluster of allegations is that the Onavo acquisition put FB-designed and built rootkits underneath TLS on a significant fraction of all smartphones in the United States and that FB/IG (now Meta) used clear text access to ostensibly secure HTTPS sessions to extract arbitrary data from both competitors and partner companies to play poker with X-Ray glasses on as concerned all competition in an ostensibly free and fair and competitive marketplace while simultaneously creating scope for arbitrary other advanced actors to exploit the same intentionally crippled OS-level security at the cost of weakening the entire world’s digital security infrastructure for pure financial profit without so much as a FISA court order to justify such actions.
If substantiated, such accusations would be among the most damning in the history of technology.
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#20Two things are truly horrifying if this is true. 1. Just how normalized this behavior has become in Silicon Valley upper management circles. 2. That this has not gotten out earlier. Hundreds or thousands of employees at both companies could have reported this to the FTC or elsewhere.
Vesting period