Facebook Crimes (alleged torts)

[Graybeard]

Not *criminal* in the US but when the new Data Privacy Act takes effect in California -- they will be
This is *criminal* under the GDPR Directive in the EU right now.

Facebook allowed Netflix and Spotify to read the private messages of its users.

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“The social network allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages,” the Times notes. “Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread — privileges that appeared to go beyond what the companies needed to integrate Facebook into their systems, the records show.”

Aside from Spotify, Bing, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada, other “partners” that Facebook shared information with include Yahoo, Amazon, the Russian search engine Yandex, and the Chinese firm Huawei. Both Yandex and Huawei are known to work with the security services of their home countries. Huawei has been named as a security threat by the American government. <<<

You can run but you cannot hide ...

 

[James London]

Doesn't surprise me that it would end up at a point like this. It should be a criminal acts without a doubt, as it sacrifices the privacy of users. Then again, it's always been said not to feed anything to the digital world that you don't want others to find out about. Now the reasons couldn't be any more obvious with events like this starting to surface.

 

[Graybeard]

It's also been said:"Never say anything you don't want repeated in a courtroom."
Facebook is its own worse enemy, IMO.

All their problems boil down to the Facebook corporate culture.
Greed and Naivety. Add contempt of the user's privacy and this strange kumbaya philosophy.

70% of the Internet population uses that silo ... So ...