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FTC on Facebooks disabling accounts at NYU’s Ad Observatory: "While it is not our role to resolve individual disputes between Facebook and third parties, we ho
by donohoe 5y ago
FTC on Facebooks disabling accounts at NYU’s Ad Observatory:
"While it is not our role to resolve individual disputes between Facebook and third parties, we hope that the company is not invoking privacy–much less the FTC consent order–as a pretext to advance other aims"
- annadane 5y agoThey are and it's already proven they did that before, shutting down APIs ostensibly to protect consumer privacy but actually doing it for monopolistic reasons (as internal emails disclosed)
- ahahahahah 5y agoYou know you're talking about the APIs that Cambridge Analytica used to extract data from FB, right?
- annadane 5y agoNo. I'm talking about how removing (for example) Vine access had nothing to do with API safety and everything to do with making a walled garden
- DelightOne 5y agoWell, you know how bad it is, if they don't want you to find out.