in terms of access to data. In addition to Pikinis, the casualties included Lulu, an app that let women rate the men they dated; an identity fraud-detecting app called Beehive ID; and Swedish breast cancer awareness app Rosa Bandet .
Despite this, Six4Three’s access to data, specifically access to a user’s friends’ photos, was cut off in April 2015 as part of sweeping changes to Facebook’s platform announced a year earlier, which affected as many as 40,000 apps. Six4Three shut down the app soon afterward.“Our case is about Zuckerberg’s decision to weaponize the reliance of companies on his purportedly neutral platform and to weaponize the private and sensitive data of billions of people,” said Six4Three founder Ted Kramer.
The company was in a desperate position, documents show, with users sharing fewer photos and posts on the platform as they spent more time on their cellphones. An internal Facebook presentation looking back at this period used the phrase “terminal decline” to describe the fall in engagement. Discussions continued through October, when Zuckerberg explained to close friend Sam Lessin the importance of controlling third-party apps’ ability to access Facebook’s data and reach people’s friends on the platform. Without that leverage, “I don’t think we have any way to get developers to pay us at all,” Zuckerberg wrote in an email to Lessin.
"I just can’t think of any instances where that data has leaked from developer to developer and caused a real issue for us.” Zuckerberg didn’t know it at the time, but a privacy bug affecting an unnamed third-party app would create precisely this kind of strategic risk the following year, according to a panicked chatlog between Michael Vernal, who was director of engineering, and other senior employees.
He noted that though Facebook could charge developers to access user data, the company stood to benefit more from requiring developers to compensate Facebook in kind — with their own data — and by pushing those developers to pay for advertising on Facebook’s platform.“The purpose of the platform is to tie the universe of all the social apps together so we can enable a lot more sharing and still remain the central social hub,” Zuckerberg said in the email.
Zuckerberg doesn't care about privacy. He wants you to put out all your personal information and that was a basis of his original software. So why is anyone surprised. He only puts in privacy with push back when he gets caught. DeleteFacebook
rhonda_harbison People on Facebook are so narcissistic that they don't care.
lola_patty When all the money in the world isn’t enough.....🙄
zuckerberberg is a high functioning sociopath. fuck him and his company. they ruined and destroyed whatsapp. they have been above the law for years. time to end the reign of this paychopath
MaryQueenfspots People are still getting used by, I mean using facebook? No sympathy for the stupid
shocking. mark is a douche and people keep using his services.
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Normally I would believe this, but after 2 years listening to you call the president a traitor and me ready to dole out the punishment for treason, only to find you lied to me the past two years, I cannot believe a damn thing you say now.
Stay Woke!
MelissaJPeltier But Buttigieg’s improbable rise had nothing to do with a Facebook boost. 🙄
Things must be really bad when one left wing entity attacks another!
He is evil.
DrGJackBrown Facebook. So 2014.
A long winded article to basically say Facebook is still planning on selling your data.
doesn't SenSchumer daughter work for FB? She fits in with the cronies just like daddy
leveraged data to help friends......like his pal MayorPete Buttigieg. menofHarvard
Ya don't say. 🙄
Facebook needs to be regarded, at this point, as a threat to national security, taken to task, cut down to size and sold off for parts!!
Facebook would reward favored companies by giving them access to the data of its users. In other cases, it would deny user-data access to rival companies or apps. This sounds pretty bad if proven true! If true...what companies benefited & at what cost?
Lock him up.
Do you think Zuck gives a rat's butt?
He also stole Facebook.