Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies

Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies by mtgx on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:54AM (#17246667)

> “Facebook’s integrations with Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO and TCL were controlled from the get-go — and we approved the Facebook experiences these companies built.”

They're going to be sorry for admitting to that when we discover that Huawei or Lenovo had been harvesting that data for other purposes.

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Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies by ptero on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:01AM (#17246724)

They might be sorry for admitting this, but they have no choice -- once the clear question gets asked FB cannot hide the answer. It can lie, but it would be worse, as the lie will come out quickly and they would be in much hotter water: not only for doing something bad, but also for lying about it (effectively admitting they saw it as a bad practice). Pretending that what they did is not bad is their best option.

And of course Huawei and Lenovo will use data for other purposes -- they operate under different jurisdictions than FB. They also likely cannot keep ignore data requests for "national interests" even if they wanted to. And national interests include economic interests for sure.

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Re:Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies by alter_eco123 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:58AM (#17246698)

What other purposes and how is it FB's problem?

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