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) 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.