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Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by fipple on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:17PM (#18622322)
Yeah, Wall Street has much more experience in this. Whenever there would be something illegal to discuss, there’d be a phone call between our personal cell phones (company lines were recorded).
Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by exelius on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:29PM (#18624336)
I've known a few CEOs of publicly traded companies, and they seem to have a "trap phone" with a rolodex of all the people they're not supposed to be talking to. Such as CEOs of direct competitors who they totally don't call to coordinate market strategy.
Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by CamperBob2 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:12PM (#18622860)
Also the most common 5 words heard on police scanners these days. ("Call me on my cell.")

These people should be in a cell.

Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by ams6110 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:33PM (#18623604)
Yeah really cops should not be using personal cell phones on duty. Don't know why this is allowed. Everything should be sent thru police radio and recorded.
Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by Spooky23 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:51PM (#18625225)
Police IT is beyond awful. All of the cool toys are grant funded, so they build lots of stuff and maintain nothing. Operational funding is nonexistent.

The camera a detective I know was issued was a Canon Elph from 2003. They all use personal smartphones because the institutional equipment is limited and junky.

Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by pjc50 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:41PM (#18622551)
A surprisingly large number of people in the libor scandal were doing it openly in Bloomberg chat.