[kictanet] As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

[Ebele Okobi]

I hope this is helpful-I’m actually surprised at the number of inaccuracies in that NYT article.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-partnerships/






On Dec 18, 2018, at 11:45 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:


Data is the new oil...

For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews.

The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times. The records, generated in 2017 by the company’s internal system for tracking partnerships, provide the most complete picture yet of the social network’s data-sharing practices. They also underscore how personal data has become the most prized commodity of the digital age, traded on a vast scale by some of the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Read more https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2018_12_18_technology_facebook-2Dprivacy.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=TtMXIsI08phHuQlvc6VmVH4k8CQ3GtJGpAUYsxD-_vk&s=SoUbI_wbPtYMnOvXIptleYhArX3tXDjdsyzjFepvBuA&e=>


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