I find it pretty funny that they don't even answer the first question they say they're being asked: If they were actually trying to be transparent, they'd say something along the lines of "yes, we...
I find it pretty funny that they don't even answer the first question they say they're being asked:
Today, we’re facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people’s information and, if so, why we did this.
To put it simply, this work was about helping people do two things. [...]
If they were actually trying to be transparent, they'd say something along the lines of "yes, we gave certain companies access to parts of our customers' personal information, in order to..."
Techdirt put out a good analysis/response post today that talks about how they're always very evasive/misleading with their statements, because they know that users would be upset if they were...
Seriously? This was after the Cambridge Analytica story broke. That's just unbelievable, and it goes to further show that Facebook is mathematically deciding the absolute limits of how they can...
it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.
Seriously? This was after the Cambridge Analytica story broke. That's just unbelievable, and it goes to further show that Facebook is mathematically deciding the absolute limits of how they can abuse the user data under their control. Congress's joke of a response will probably encourage them to push the limits further.
The fact that they got into PMs is a big deal. Will it creep people out enough to actually do something about it ?
Here's Facebook's response: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/
I find it pretty funny that they don't even answer the first question they say they're being asked:
If they were actually trying to be transparent, they'd say something along the lines of "yes, we gave certain companies access to parts of our customers' personal information, in order to..."
Techdirt put out a good analysis/response post today that talks about how they're always very evasive/misleading with their statements, because they know that users would be upset if they were honest about what they're doing: Facebook's Latest Privacy Screwup Shows How Facebook's Worst Enemy Is Still Facebook
Seriously? This was after the Cambridge Analytica story broke. That's just unbelievable, and it goes to further show that Facebook is mathematically deciding the absolute limits of how they can abuse the user data under their control. Congress's joke of a response will probably encourage them to push the limits further.