Facebook is once again found itself in hot water for lying to the public, not just the
American public, actually the public all around the world about their data harvesting process.
In 2014 Facebook swore up and down that they were done allowing app developers and third
party software programs that were a part of Facebook to access the personal data of users
and everyone on their friends list that happened in 2014.
They said we're done.
It'll never happen again.
Well, according to documents actually released in the British parliament yesterday, Facebook
still does that and not only did they continue doing that after they swore they weren't going
to do it anymore, they actually had many companies reach out to them and they told those companies
according to emails released in British parliament that they were going to make sure everything
was taken.
Okay.
Uh, it was going to be okay.
They were taking care of.
Some of those companies include Netflix, Lyft and airbnb and other independent app developers
that were also tied into Facebook.
Here's a, here's some of the emails.
This is from app developer dating platform by do said, we have been compelled to write
to you to explain the hugely detrimental effect that removing friend permissions will call
us to are hugely popular and profitable applications, Baidu and hot or not a Facebook.
Then wrote back to them, this was January 2015 saying, uh, there we have a new application
programming interface known as API.
It's going to actually let selected apps go ahead and bypass our new rule system.
Basically, they created a separate algorithm within Facebook that allowed certain app developers,
the one who's ones who curried favor with Facebook, I guess to still access your data,
the data of your friends, the data of your friends' friends because they all got white
listed through this secret algorithm that nobody knew about.
A Zuckerberg also in the documents released yesterday, uh, was talking about how can we
profit more off sharing users' data if you needed any more evidence that Facebook and
Zuckerberg in particular in particular, just horrible individuals.
This is it, right?
I mean, this kind of seals the deal here.
Facebook doesn't care about your privacy.
Facebook doesn't care about protecting your data.
They care about profiting from it.
That is what Mark Zuckerberg himself says in these new documents and they made sure
to create a separate little algorithm that only certain programs and apps knew about
that they could use to be white listed, to get access to everything that you have to
offer and everything that all of your friends have to offer because it was profitable because
there was money to be made and that is the only thing that motivates these people.
You know, they might've started as idealists wanting to create this social network and
be cool and popular, but somewhere along the way and perhaps even before it began, they
began.
They became corrupted by the money and that's what we're looking at right now.
Something has to happen with Facebook.
This is absolutely out of control.
Not just that they're letting people without our permission access our data, but because
they're profiting from it and they lied to us about it.
Regulations need to be put in place that expressly for bids, any social media company from sharing
your data with anyone on this planet, unless you have expressly given permission, not just
blanket permission, go ahead and share it, but permission every single time some company
comes out there wanting your data and the data of everybody you know, that's what needs
to happen and if that's not going to happen then because of the massive privacy issues
and the decay of public trust, then perhaps it's time for the government to step in and
say, Facebook, you're no longer allowed to do business here in the United States.