<story><title>Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/dear-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freeopinion</author><text>&amp;gt; Ad Observer only collects information about the ads people see, not personal posts or users’ personal information.&lt;p&gt;This statement seems to be contradicted within the article itself.&lt;p&gt;For instance, Mozilla claims the tool is used by a newsroom in Utah, linking to an article titled &amp;quot;ksl-investigates-who-is-behind-the-millions-in-facebook-political-ads-targeting-utah.&amp;quot; So presumably the tool identifies the location of the target.&lt;p&gt;The article also claims that the tool proves that Facebook is still selling discriminatory ads. Does this mean that the tool knows things like race, gender, religion, etc. about the user?&lt;p&gt;If a user has willingly shared such information with the tool, I don&amp;#x27;t see a problem. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how Facebook would even have any standing in a legal case. But the article does  seem to contradict itself about user privacy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/dear-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>This may be addressed to Facebook, but it&amp;#x27;s clearly written for a different audience. Accusing Facebook of impure motives and outright deception may feel good for Mozilla&amp;#x27;s staff, but it won&amp;#x27;t convince Facebook to change their stance. And let&amp;#x27;s not forget, Facebook is trying to draw a clear line against data exfiltration, to prevent another Cambridge Analytica disaster.&lt;p&gt;I really think this is just more posturing by Mozilla.</text></comment>