DC: Federal prosecutors are investigating partnership deals Facebook forged with some of the world’s largest technological companies.
A grand jury subpoenaed records from two smartphone developers, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter. Both companies entered into large and complex data deals with Facebook, allowing all the firms involved in the partnership to collect vast troves of information on millions of users.
The agreements allowed companies such as Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, among others, to see users’ friends and contact information, often without consent.
“We are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously,” a Facebook spokesman told TheNYT in a press statement. “We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged that we will continue to do so.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg created the partnerships to stave off obsolescence and insulate the massive company from competition. Every corporate partner helped drive the platform’s expansion and yoke people deeper into Facebook’s universe while growing advertisement. News of the subpoena comes at a bad moment for Facebook. read more
If you don’t like what Facebook does to their customers, then get the h*ll off Facebook. Don’t even think twice about it. Your life won’t end without it.
…and, TexasHoldEm: There are now a couple of alternatives to FB. USA.life and that one that Pinko pitched on his last radio show (and now I can’t remember).
Obviously, Suckerberg didn’t have Microsoft’s Steve Balmer to arrange all of their shenanigans.
Take them down.
Nationalize them and tax them bowlegged.