- Facebook engineers discovered technique of adding read call log/SMS permissions during an app update without notifying the user. Was used in a production release (x-post /r/programming) https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/note-by-chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-six4three.pdf#page=11 32 comments netsec
- Facebook engineers discovered technique of adding read call log/SMS permissions during an app update without notifying the user. Was used in a production release https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/note-by-chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-six4three.pdf#page=11 190 comments programming
- Internal Facebook communication has been publicised by a British MP https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/note-by-chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-six4three.pdf 3 comments technology
Linking pages
- Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46456695 5798 comments
- The Facebook emails show the company never really cared about connecting the world. https://slate.com/business/2018/12/facebook-emails-lawsuit-embarrassing-mark-zuckerberg.html 940 comments
- Facebook’s Very Bad Month Just Got Worse | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebooks-very-bad-month-just-got-worse 589 comments
- Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/facebook-allows-competitors/ 106 comments
- Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users’ data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/05/facebook-allegedly-offered-advertisers-special-access-users-data-activities-according-documents-released-by-british-lawmakers/ 25 comments
- Out of Commission: How the Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files | UpGuard https://www.upguard.com/breaches/rsync-oklahoma-securities-commission 24 comments
- Facebook Used People’s Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-documents-uk-parliament.html 20 comments
- Internal Facebook documents show how the company makes deals for data - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127230/facebook-data-documents-parliament-deals-zuckerberg 14 comments
- Facebook’s morale problem is getting worse - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128267/facebook-morale-uk-parliament-emails-privacy-competition 10 comments
- The Technology 202: More than 200 companies are calling for a national privacy law. Here's an inside look at their proposal. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2018/12/06/the-technology-202-more-than-200-companies-are-calling-for-a-national-privacy-law-here-s-an-inside-look-at-their-proposal/5c0819be1b326b60d128012e/ 8 comments
- Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/technology/facebook-emails-privacy-data.html 8 comments
- Internal Facebook documents show how the company makes deals for data - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/12/5/18127230/facebook-data-documents-parliament-deals-zuckerberg 4 comments
- Mark Zuckerberg personally approved cutting off Vine’s friend-finding feature - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127202/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-vine-friends-api-block-parliament-documents 3 comments
- "That may be good for the world, but it’s not good for us" - Zuckerberg, Facebook and your data https://diginomica.com/2018/12/06/that-may-be-good-for-the-world-but-its-not-good-for-us-zuckerberg-facebook-and-your-data/ 1 comment
- British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/05/last-laugh-on-zuck.html 0 comments
- Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127216/facebook-android-call-scraping-high-risk-emails-uk-parliament 0 comments
- 15 Moments That Defined Facebook's First 15 Years | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-15-defining-moments/ 0 comments