Facebook spent years forging various partnership agreements with other digital media monsters to gobble up huge troves of users’ private data even when customers are not perusing the company’s platform, according to testing conducted by The Wall Street Journal. Recent analyses are going further to describe the extent of Facebook’s ability to peer into people’s […]
This Story’s Legs Are Growing: Facebook Admits That it Allowed Netflix and Spotify to Access Your Private Messages…
Facebook has acknowledged allowing other companies, namely Spotify and Netflix, to access millions of people’s private messages. Responding to a bombshell New York Times report from Tuesday on how Facebook shared user data with partners over the years, the company said it had given third-party companies extensive access to messages. It said this was so […]
The New York Times, Who Busted Facebook for Sharing User Data, Themselves Had/Have Special Access to Data Without Users Knowledge…
Netflix Swears It Didn’t Read Your Facebook Messages in Weird Tweet…
The Latest Facebook Scandal: Netflix, Spotify Could Read Private Messages, Yandex Was Given IDs…
Cambridge Analytica’s Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists…
“Thousands of third party apps were designed solely to obtain and sell your data. It’s no surprise that the data ended up being used again on Facebook, one of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.”
The Problem Is Facebook, Not Cambridge Analytica…
Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S., which it may or may not have used 1 to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There’s nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn’t offer political clients. Here, […]
Ruh Roh: Former Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’…
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign. In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, […]