EFF: Facebook’s Latest Scandal Shows We Need Stronger Privacy Laws
Facebook’s Latest Scandal Shows We Need Stronger Privacy Laws Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, has shown yet again that it does not deserve our trust. A New York Times investigation revealed that Facebook shared its users’ private data, without its users’ consent, with other tech giants including Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix. The Times report revealed that Facebook parceled out deeply personal information from its users to other companies without first asking if that was alright. Facebook users’ private messages went to Netflix, Spotify and the Royal Bank of Canada. The names and contact information for their friends went to Sony, Microsoft, and Amazon. Yahoo even got a real-time feed of what users’ friends were up to—without telling either the user or their friends. Press investigations have exposed, time and again , that Facebook and other tech companies too often will choose their profits over your privacy . This underscores the need for stronger pri...