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According to Facebook employees who spoke with the New York Times, staffers are also urging the company to hunt down the leakers who released the Bosworth memo.
If the report is accurate, the deletion of internal communications could have legal implications, including in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company’s data-handling practices. Destruction of internal documents was a partial focus of the FTC’s recent investigation of Volkswagen.
Bosworth’s memo continued catastrophic PR fallout following findings that the Facebook data of as many as 50 million users was wrongly harvested by the election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In the memo leaked Thursday, Bosworth wrote that “connecting people” should be the company’s driving goal, even if “it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies” or “someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 02 2018, @04:03PM (2 children)
What can we do? Or, what can I do? Personally, I don't have the energy to start a crusade. But, that is what is needed. Someone, or some group, needs to go on crusade, exposing how data is mined, and how it is used. What we have at the moment, are a few stories that have caught some people's attention. But, we, as a nation, suffer from attention deficit disorder. A crusade that captured the public attention, and the public's imagination, would be the thing. It's all a scandal, but no one has made the American public understand just how scandalous it is.
Youtube, for example, has a number of informative videos in regards to data mining. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=data+mining [youtube.com] None of them has "gone viral" yet. Maybe none ever will. Most people just can't be bothered, and they certainly don't get excited over it.
It needs someone to focus on. Hell, I'd forgive the Kardashians for being fat-assed ugly sluts, if they were to lead this crusade. Any celeb would be fine with me, so long as he/she can keep attention focused.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday April 02 2018, @04:10PM (1 child)
The longest journey starts with a small step and all that. Ideally, someone with the time and the money would take it up.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday April 03 2018, @04:15AM
Not every small step starts the longest journey.
Give the number of longest journeys vs the number of first steps in any kind of journey, chances for the small step to become the start of the longest journey are infinitesimal - one will need a huge amount of first steps to try to have a non-trivial chance for the longest journey to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford