Dave Farber
2018-12-05 21:05:23 UTC
Subject: [ NNSquad ] British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court
Date: December 6, 2018 at 3:26:36 AM GMT+9
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal
Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/05/last-laugh-on-zuck.html
Now, Collins has dumped a 250 page file, hosted on
Parliament's servers, which includes the documents from
Kramer's laptop and Collins's summary. The release comes
despite a plea from Facebook to respect the US court order and
not publish the documents. The documents are incredibly
damning. They show Facebookers at the highest level -- up to
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg -- conspiring to
trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by
an update to the Facebook app; to give certain companies
"whitelisted" access to user data beyond the access the
company had disclosed to its users; to explicitly productize
"friends" data (that is, to allow the trick Cambridge
Analytica pulled, when getting a user to grant permission to
their own data also allowed a company to access their friends'
data); to use the Onavo battery-monitor app to covertly gather
data on which other apps users had installed; and
anti-competitive targeting of partners' apps.
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-------------------------------------------Date: December 6, 2018 at 3:26:36 AM GMT+9
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal
Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/05/last-laugh-on-zuck.html
Now, Collins has dumped a 250 page file, hosted on
Parliament's servers, which includes the documents from
Kramer's laptop and Collins's summary. The release comes
despite a plea from Facebook to respect the US court order and
not publish the documents. The documents are incredibly
damning. They show Facebookers at the highest level -- up to
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg -- conspiring to
trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by
an update to the Facebook app; to give certain companies
"whitelisted" access to user data beyond the access the
company had disclosed to its users; to explicitly productize
"friends" data (that is, to allow the trick Cambridge
Analytica pulled, when getting a user to grant permission to
their own data also allowed a company to access their friends'
data); to use the Onavo battery-monitor app to covertly gather
data on which other apps users had installed; and
anti-competitive targeting of partners' apps.
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