The entire technology scene of Silicon Valley is looking pretty corrupt in 2018. This comes as Facebook let other companies do the unthinkable, read private messages.
Facebook’s stock is plummeting on the news and is likely in some legal trouble.
Facebook Violated User Consent in Privacy Breach
Meanwhile it seems the The D.C. attorney general is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook also is facing fines in the EU and in specific countries such as Italy.
Facebook’s Business Model is the “Bad Actor”
Zuckerberg’s been talking about privacy for years and what’s frustrating to anyone who believes in truth and the responsibility of CEOs to follow an ethical code, Facebook has been the major ‘bad actor’ in terms of privacy and user data exploitation since the inauguration of the internet.
A new New York Times report, though, alleges Facebook maintained improper partnerships far more recently, with a huge number of companies, and knowingly. Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
Facebook didn’t just disrupt the media, democracy and corporate ethics in the age of data, it peddled user data for profit. If Huawei is blocked from entering the U.S., Facebook should and her apps should be shut down for these crimes against people and humanity.
Silicon Valley failed the internet and Humanity
Facebook doesn’t care about you. Facebook deals in data and you were always the product. Just as Microsoft and Google thinks. This is what happens when tech companies aren’t regulated, audited and overseen by a neutral body.
Centralized for profit corporations that don’t have an ethical view of the long-term have skewed freedom and privacy on the internet, maybe forever. Facebook should face legal repercussions that are severe, and tech companies should be broken up accordingly due to anti-trust violations. This is worse than the Chinese great firewall so far as manipulation goes, like a conspiracy of technology companies against users.
The NYT story raises questions over Silicon Valley’s business model on the impact on people and our institutions and the very mechanism of consent online. We have to consider this a gross failure of American leadership at its core — which could lead to an even more dystopian Chinese era of online censorship and state manipulation against consumers and the freedom and dignity of people. China hasn’t just stolen IP, but taken some of the mechanisms of Google, Facebook and Microsoft in how to corner markets and implement very dangerous monopolies on the future freedoms. This is what centralization does to the global virtual infrastructure.
F*ck being Sorry Zuck you should be Scared
The NY times articles goes on to say:
But Facebook also assumed extraordinary power over the personal information of its 2.2 billion users, throwing their data and even access to their private messages under the bus — simply for short-term profits and advertising revenue.
Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify and Amazon All Implicated in Conspiracy
You must realize too that this is a a potential violation of the company’s 2011 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Nobody would consent to their private messages being read! How can I trust Whatsapp or Messenger ever again? Seriously.
Facebook as a nefarious data-sharing promiscuity of dark personal data harvesting
But the documents, as well as interviews with about 50 former employees of Facebook and its corporate partners, reveal that Facebook allowed certain companies access to data despite those protections. A totally immature company at all levels.
Is Facebook the epitome of Millennial leadership? Just backroom deals exploiting their own users? In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies. Zuck really has no idea what he has done, and that’s one of the scariest parts of all this. The denial of any serious wrong doing. The perverse Silicon Valley aspect of delusions of grandeur. Employees that somehow can fall in line? Incredible.
Facebook allowed tech companies to view private messages and contact information as recently as this year. We really need the NY Times tell us the sad reality of how Facebook and Google have failed the internet? America the brave, America the false. Zuck a data tyrant, chasing wealth through unscrupulous means. At least Bezos and Musk have vision.
Facebook said it enabled partner companies like Spotify to access users’ private messages after a user had signed into Facebook through the partner company’s app. Sure let’s just give privacy away because Facebook never even manged to create useful services after all these years. Tencent, Alibaba and even Huawei will be great companies long after Facebook is nothing more than a footnote in the pages of internet history. Long live corruption, long live centralized business models that exploit people.
Facebook executives call these “missteps”. You guys should be in jail. Do you realize that? Facebook should be shut down, these just too many serious consequences of what they have done that puts the entire internet on a crash course with dystopia. Google and Microsoft are really bad pretenders at being anything different. They wrote the book on how to corner markets and create false monopolies. Amazon should disrupt them all, and learn from these things.
Facebook’s stock is plummeting on the news and is likely in some legal trouble.
- In a blog post on December 18th, 2018 evening, the company admitted that Netflix and Spotify were able to access user messages.
Facebook Violated User Consent in Privacy Breach
- Facebook has been accused of violating the consent decree — a misstep that would likely carry a multibillion-dollar fine — several times over the last year.
Meanwhile it seems the The D.C. attorney general is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook also is facing fines in the EU and in specific countries such as Italy.
Facebook’s Business Model is the “Bad Actor”
Zuckerberg’s been talking about privacy for years and what’s frustrating to anyone who believes in truth and the responsibility of CEOs to follow an ethical code, Facebook has been the major ‘bad actor’ in terms of privacy and user data exploitation since the inauguration of the internet.
A new New York Times report, though, alleges Facebook maintained improper partnerships far more recently, with a huge number of companies, and knowingly. Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
Facebook didn’t just disrupt the media, democracy and corporate ethics in the age of data, it peddled user data for profit. If Huawei is blocked from entering the U.S., Facebook should and her apps should be shut down for these crimes against people and humanity.
Silicon Valley failed the internet and Humanity
Facebook doesn’t care about you. Facebook deals in data and you were always the product. Just as Microsoft and Google thinks. This is what happens when tech companies aren’t regulated, audited and overseen by a neutral body.
Centralized for profit corporations that don’t have an ethical view of the long-term have skewed freedom and privacy on the internet, maybe forever. Facebook should face legal repercussions that are severe, and tech companies should be broken up accordingly due to anti-trust violations. This is worse than the Chinese great firewall so far as manipulation goes, like a conspiracy of technology companies against users.
The NYT story raises questions over Silicon Valley’s business model on the impact on people and our institutions and the very mechanism of consent online. We have to consider this a gross failure of American leadership at its core — which could lead to an even more dystopian Chinese era of online censorship and state manipulation against consumers and the freedom and dignity of people. China hasn’t just stolen IP, but taken some of the mechanisms of Google, Facebook and Microsoft in how to corner markets and implement very dangerous monopolies on the future freedoms. This is what centralization does to the global virtual infrastructure.
F*ck being Sorry Zuck you should be Scared
The NY times articles goes on to say:
- For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed.
- The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times.
- Technology employees are the last ethical defense for humanity with executives out of touch with human rights online chasing profit motives and monopolistic practices that simply prioritize shareholder gains.
But Facebook also assumed extraordinary power over the personal information of its 2.2 billion users, throwing their data and even access to their private messages under the bus — simply for short-term profits and advertising revenue.
Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify and Amazon All Implicated in Conspiracy
- The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer.
- Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent.
- Perhaps the most troubling of them all, Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.
You must realize too that this is a a potential violation of the company’s 2011 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Nobody would consent to their private messages being read! How can I trust Whatsapp or Messenger ever again? Seriously.
Facebook as a nefarious data-sharing promiscuity of dark personal data harvesting
But the documents, as well as interviews with about 50 former employees of Facebook and its corporate partners, reveal that Facebook allowed certain companies access to data despite those protections. A totally immature company at all levels.
Is Facebook the epitome of Millennial leadership? Just backroom deals exploiting their own users? In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies. Zuck really has no idea what he has done, and that’s one of the scariest parts of all this. The denial of any serious wrong doing. The perverse Silicon Valley aspect of delusions of grandeur. Employees that somehow can fall in line? Incredible.
Facebook allowed tech companies to view private messages and contact information as recently as this year. We really need the NY Times tell us the sad reality of how Facebook and Google have failed the internet? America the brave, America the false. Zuck a data tyrant, chasing wealth through unscrupulous means. At least Bezos and Musk have vision.
Facebook said it enabled partner companies like Spotify to access users’ private messages after a user had signed into Facebook through the partner company’s app. Sure let’s just give privacy away because Facebook never even manged to create useful services after all these years. Tencent, Alibaba and even Huawei will be great companies long after Facebook is nothing more than a footnote in the pages of internet history. Long live corruption, long live centralized business models that exploit people.
Facebook executives call these “missteps”. You guys should be in jail. Do you realize that? Facebook should be shut down, these just too many serious consequences of what they have done that puts the entire internet on a crash course with dystopia. Google and Microsoft are really bad pretenders at being anything different. They wrote the book on how to corner markets and create false monopolies. Amazon should disrupt them all, and learn from these things.