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> The social network allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.

> The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.

The records the New York Times reviewed were "generated in 2017" and "some were still in effect this year." That means not only did these agreements cross through Facebook's representations to various governments, they also overlap with GDPR.



>> "they also overlap with GDPR"

Both Facebook and Google were hit with GDPR-related lawsuits since the first day of GDPR enforcement.

Companies are being sued left and right by privacy advocates and by "ambulance chasers".

Which is great IMO, I hope Facebook gets at least a big fine for this.


A big fine is nice. But until some high-level executives go to jail, they will do it over and over again. A fine is just an operational cost.


I guess this sort of defeats the purpose of switching from Google search to Bing over privacy concerns.


I've been using DuckDuckGo as my default. I mostly only use google for news search now. No complaints.


duckduckgo works really well. For some topics google is better, but for 95% ddg do the job as a day to day standard search engine. And those times you need google, it is very simple just to add !g bang to get the google search results. With ddg you get better privacy and dont end up in googles filter bubble. More should try it out.


Does it still affect you if you don't connect your FB account? I wouldn't think so


Advertisers can still figure out how who you are without linking an account. It may take them slightly longer, but the information is out there.


Is THAT what the Bing goalposts were on the graphs? Tons and tons of fatal errors when they’d come calling. I don’t think they were getting much.

Looked like |______|.

Then one day, no more. So odd.




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