NEW → Facebook responds to Sen. Josh Hawley's recent letter about the company’s supposed pivot-to-privacy. "I thought they’d swear off the creepier possibilities I raised. But instead, they doubled down,” said Senator Hawley.
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Here are a few important points to note from Facebook's response to Senator Hawley's letter questioning whether a such a "privacy-focused platform" could really function as advertised given Facebook’s monetization model ↓↓↓
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1. Facebook still considers you the product. Facebook refuses to swear off efforts to use metadata about encrypted messages to interpolate message content, including which links users share with each other in its encrypted messaging platform.
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2. Reinforcing concerns that payments could present opportunities for privacy leakage, Facebook refuses to swear off efforts to collect and use information about payments made through its encrypted platform to interpolate message content.
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3. A point which speaks for itself, Facebook refuses to swear off the use of data collected from closed or secret groups for “personalization” and ad targeting.
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4. Despite promoting its new platform as privacy protective, Facebook has yet to make critical decisions about the privacy of data shared within it – repeatedly referencing “many open questions” about its use of metadata to snoop on users’ supposedly private interactions.
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“My advice to consumers is simple: when Facebook tells you its messaging services are private, you can’t trust them." – Senator Josh Hawley http://go.usa.gov/xmAhT
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Replying to @SenHawleyPress
I don't need some fancy Ivy Leaguer to help me out with that.
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