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Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages

posted by janrinok on Monday April 02 2018, @03:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the pretend-it-never-happened dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.”

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 02 2018, @09:20PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday April 02 2018, @09:20PM (#661667) Journal

    Fortunately, I didn't put up party pictures on FB just like I didn't show up to the interview in a toga.

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:55PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:55PM (#662193) Journal

    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.

    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.

    Heh, it is kind of amusing to me that the die hard free market types hate the idea of a one world government. The reality is that corporate greed has propelled us toward that fate faster than anything else. Corporations are a return to feudalism but with a veneer of society pasted on. They can make up all sorts of rules in their own kingdoms, and while people are "free" to come and go they will have profiles constructed and deviations from the norm will leave you unemployed.

    No actual example of such hypothetical "corporate greed" has been constructed that is worse than what several governments do now.

    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.

    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.