Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages
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Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
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Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

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Oh boy. Some of you people watch too many movies.

Let’s get some basic stuff established:

  • This thread is about commercial platforms selling your direct message data. That’s the threat model.
  • I don’t live in a country where the police SWAT teams throw flashbangs without court orders
  • If the authorities want to get to me (which, again, is not the threat model of this thread). They can. Easily. They know where I live. They just have to knock on the door. It’s not even locked.
  • I did, to my best knowledge, not reply to you in anywhere this thread. I’m not sure why you are replying to me.

But sure. I’ll give you this: If your threat model is dodging SWAT team flashbangs, I doubt using Signal is much use to you at that point. That just wasn’t what this thread was talking about.

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Good luck getting into my phone!

That’s what I was referring to. I’m glad you live in a country where that scenario seems movie-like but I live in the land of the free.

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Which was a response to this

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Yeah I went overboard.

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