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if there is anybody out there working at facebook who has access to the info and can pass it on over tor, then I'm all ears. I'd be happy to put this out into t
by DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
if there is anybody out there working at facebook who has access to the info and can pass it on over tor, then I'm all ears. I'd be happy to put this out into the public for you. My ricochet id is in my profile.
Edit: The best person to send this to is actually Carole Cadwalladr. But she has unfortunately no set-up that wouldn't eventually get you in hot water.
- ameister14 8y agoAll they need to do is get a warrant/subpoena or the British equivalent. Why would Facebook agree to give out user info voluntarily?
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoyou need media pressure first. The initial reluctance to probe Arron Banks indicates that.
- no1youknowz 8y ago> Why would Facebook agree You are talking about Facebook higher-ups. Who on the face of it, have to abide by the law. The OP said: > if there is anybody out there working at facebook who has access to the info He's talking about an activist/whistle-blower working at facebook who may have access. Who undercover can leak information. Totally different things here.
- hadrien01 8y agoHasn't the British parliament that kind of power already? From what I understood, they got documents from the Six4Three/Facebook lawsuit by telling someone they would be in contempt of parliament.
- ameister14 8y agoThe Parliament does have that power, yes. I don't know if the committee does and has used it, though - hence the exec saying: "in the event that Facebook receives a request for personal data from an entity which can legally require such information, Facebook will provide information in line with normal procedures. "
- ktjfi 8y agoOn the other hand, if you work at facebook and send private user data to some anonymous source just like that, I hope they sue you out of existence.
- j-c-hewitt 8y agoNah man, I'm sure he's a cool dude. If he's a cool dude, isn't that an adequate reason to violate both your employment contract and the privacy agreement FB has with its users?
- jancsika 8y agoIt is funny to read that comment. It reminds me of that time Dennis Rodman tweeted out for the Kim Jong Un to "do me a solid" and release an American prisoner. But then didn't the prisoner get released?
- j-c-hewitt 8y agoYea dawg, violating the privacy of a customer is totally like applying pressure through an eccentric friend of a dictator to liberate a political prisoner from North Korea! Fight the power! Yeaaaaaaaah!
- dang 8y agoCould you please not do this here? We're trying for somewhat better than internet median on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- raverbashing 8y agoWell, but it's not private user data, is it? (If it was I would agree with you) There should be no secrecy in political advertisement funding.
- gadders 8y agoYeah, her credibility is a bit shot at the moment. Probably not the best: https://order-order.com/people/carole-cadwalladr/ https://order-order.com/people/carole-cadwalladr/
- pjc50 8y agoFar right rumor websites aren't the best for credibility either.
- gadders 8y agoIt's about as far right as the Guardian is far left.
- willyt 8y agoMassively politically skewed source you are referencing there. Multiple problems, like typically no attempt at separation of opinion from fact.
- mjw1007 8y agoAnd in this case even if this was a reliable source there's nothing there to undermine Cadwalladr's credibility: it's accusing her of being impolite, not incompetent or dishonest.
- repolfx 8y agoWhy would you do that? Do you hate privacy? Moreover why do you think it'd matter. What would you do with that name? You can find people saying "Chuck Chequers" all over the place, including senior politicians in op-eds in national newspapers. It's hardly an extreme opinion, it's the opinion held by large chunks of the country already. Whoever paid for it has nothing to hide, but they also have no reason to expose themselves to retaliation by the wildly over the top hatred and backstabbing that has been seen by EU supporters in the past couple of years.
- rbanffy 8y ago> anybody out there working at facebook That access would certainly be tracked and the person punished very quickly. Facebook takes user data breaches very seriously.
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- pjc50 8y agoI don't think we need to go full wikileaks on this yet. Worse, I don't think leaking the answer would make any difference even if you found an invoice to Mr V Putin.
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoI would not expect that individuals (advertisers) would be named here. Even if it leads to a specific person it might just be an employee that registered the campaigns. But if it can be proven that the campaign was paid by say a Maltese, Guernsey or Cypriot Ltd or anywhere else impossible to trace, it would provide additional corroborative evidence (to what is already known about the Banks shell companies like "Ural properties") and drive home that large parts of the Leave campaign was funded with dork-money. In case the whole effort hits an offshore wall of silence it wouldn't matter. The case that the whole campaign was illegal would still be strengthened by the info.
- monkeydreams 8y ago"Facebook employees, if you're listening, I hope you can find the missing identity. That'd be great."