<story><title>Facebook&apos;s seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done.&lt;p&gt;And for the record, Facebook did not &amp;quot;share data with Cambridge Analytica for shady research purposes&amp;quot;. A rogue third party developer created one of those shitty quiz apps for Facebook, and then proceed to get users to signup for it; several million did, which allowed said developer to harvest data thanks to the very permissive APIs that Facebook provided at the time. He then proceeded to sell this data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has a responsibility in what happened there, but &amp;quot;Facebook sold data to Cambridge Analytica&amp;quot; is a widly misconstrued story.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s really striking is how user-hostile this conversation is. Forget about whether the user wants to share their data or not - it&amp;#x27;s all about what Facebook wants to do. In this case, that&amp;#x27;s snuffing competition by denying access, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it&amp;#x27;s sharing data for purposes of shady data &amp;quot;research&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Really interesting stuff in there.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Facebook email 24 January 2013&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Justin Osofsky – ‘Twitter launched Vine today which lets you shoot multiple short video segments to make one single, 6-second video. As part of their NUX, you can find friends via FB. Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today. We’ve prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana know our decision.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; MZ – ‘Yup, go for it.’</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&amp;#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;cultu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathan_long</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t true. Lots of companies wouldn&amp;#x27;t steal users&amp;#x27; call logs - eg, Mozilla, Signal, and plenty of boring, normal ones who make TODO list apps or whatever.&lt;p&gt;It also isn&amp;#x27;t relevant. See how that argument flies in criminal court. &amp;quot;Anybody else would have stolen that car.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What we see here (again) is that FB does nasty things and it&amp;#x27;s in the public interest to stop them - along with &amp;quot;any other company&amp;quot; who does the same things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done.&lt;p&gt;And for the record, Facebook did not &amp;quot;share data with Cambridge Analytica for shady research purposes&amp;quot;. A rogue third party developer created one of those shitty quiz apps for Facebook, and then proceed to get users to signup for it; several million did, which allowed said developer to harvest data thanks to the very permissive APIs that Facebook provided at the time. He then proceeded to sell this data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has a responsibility in what happened there, but &amp;quot;Facebook sold data to Cambridge Analytica&amp;quot; is a widly misconstrued story.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s really striking is how user-hostile this conversation is. Forget about whether the user wants to share their data or not - it&amp;#x27;s all about what Facebook wants to do. In this case, that&amp;#x27;s snuffing competition by denying access, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it&amp;#x27;s sharing data for purposes of shady data &amp;quot;research&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>tpush</author><text>Really interesting stuff in there.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Facebook email 24 January 2013&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Justin Osofsky – ‘Twitter launched Vine today which lets you shoot multiple short video segments to make one single, 6-second video. As part of their NUX, you can find friends via FB. Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends API access today. We’ve prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana know our decision.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; MZ – ‘Yup, go for it.’</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&amp;#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;cultu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deogeo</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done.&lt;p&gt;Dubious, but still good point. Meaning legislation to force companies to behave slightly less unethically is all the more direly needed.</text></comment>