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: 4, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday April 02 2018, @06:07PM (5 children)
HR is using Linkedin and Facebook to decide whether your resume should make it to the team trying to recruit. Your data doesn't please them, by either not existing, or coming with a FB-for-HR flag (a convenient $1000/mo/recruiter monetization service)? You ain't getting the job sir.
China and their social scoring will soon look like amateurs compared to what private companies will soon do to people.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 02 2018, @06:19PM (4 children)
Fortunately, I didn't put up party pictures on FB just like I didn't show up to the interview in a toga.
What company could survive that HR? Let us recall when businesses get too retarded, they go out of business.
That's nonsense. First, it's a dumb thing to do. Second, it's an expensive thing to do and companies aren't in the business of spending money on dumb things to do. Meanwhile China has the budget to squander on whatever it feels like.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 02 2018, @06:29PM
Will it be an ad before it's a news item? It is coming, either way.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 02 2018, @09:20PM (1 child)
Unfortunately, your "friends" probably did, without asking your opinion or permission. Worse, they tagged them with your name, and FB and (probably Google) is doing facial recognition in the background across their entire photo database. FB added your contacts mined from your phone and other people's phone, and they know exactly where you live, your email addresses, and those of your friends.
You were screwed by your friends without even asking.
Probably there will be a lawsuit some day where someone finds out that a company did in fact use FB to deny them a job, sue the company for billions. Until that happens, you are screwed even if someone photoshopped that toga onto you as a joke.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:55PM
And yet this is amateur stuff compared to what various government agencies keep right now and what they can do with that. Let us keep in mind what started this.
No actual example of such hypothetical "corporate greed" has been constructed that is worse than what several governments do now.
Yet another way "corporate greed" can't keep up with the hype. What lawsuit will get you off of the government databases? Sovereign immunity goes a lot further than that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @10:00PM
Here we see the cow chewing its cud as it patiently walks through the slaughterhouse doors...
"Everything will be fine!" says the cow. "The humans have always taken care of me, everything is fine!"
You may have a decent brain in that skull khallow but it is severely lacking important data points regarding reality. Your neural nets thus suffer. No matter how good a brain you've got it is useless when operating on garbage. You and others have been crying all over the place with every instance of corporate censorship while completely forgetting the days when you replied with "but they are a private company and can do what they want. Don't like it? Don't use their service!"
So we're back to corporate apologetics already? Forgotten are the complaints about affirmative action and corporate PR ousting "wrongthink"? Stick to math, there you can actually have some comfort knowing your assumptions are valid; and when not you're probably able to be convinced when the actual proof is given to you.