New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

« Facebook Uses New Android Update To Pry Into Your Private Life In Ever-More Terrifying Ways »

« In newly revealed documents from 2015, however, Facebook employees discuss plans to coerce users into upgrading to a new, more privacy-invasive version of Messenger “without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all,” despite knowing that this kind of misrepresentation of the app’s capabilities was “a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective.” »

« Yesterday, a member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament published a trove of internal documents from Facebook, obtained as part of a lawsuit by a firm called Six4Three. The emails, memos, and slides shed new light on Facebook’s private behavior before, during, and after the events leading to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. »

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-documents-show-facebook