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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: 2, Informative) by Barenflimski on Monday April 02 2018, @04:27PM (3 children)
Don't forget that corporations have their own "laws." When you sign up, you better act 'appropriately', defined in section F, pages 161-714, or you will lose your pension, health care and your job. Live in Menlo Park? Better make sure you look right at the grocery store, because the other facebooker's may turn you in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:34PM (1 child)
Without having to convince the fools around you, you can just unilaterally choose to put your life under some other "law".
Competition in law is just as important as competition in any other aspect of society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @06:16AM
Don't confusing being able to choose your master with freedom.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:38PM
It is hard to believe so many people truly drank the corporate kool-aid, but I guess that's where the sin of Pride steps in. Everyone wants to feel important and change the world, it is just amazing so many seemingly intelligent people but the corporate PR scams. Many developers seem to have some weird innocent belief that the corporations wouldn't do such nefarious things! They are looking out for the end users otherwise their market would disappear! It is a self-defeating bit of logic that doesn't hold up under the numerous examples of corporate greed.
We need to revoke the person status of corporations like yesterday! Let the individuals running the monsters take responsibility for their actions, no more of this legal evasion by jumping out with a golden parachute before the plane crashes into the mountain.