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Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by sonnyblarney on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:59PM (#18623326)
Facebooks decision to whitelist was entirely 'inner circle' and strategic.

It was not an open, rules-based scenario.

For example, there's no reason that 'Vine' did anything to breach the 'good actor' scenario - FB banned them for competitive reasons.

'Bumble' got special access because FB is an investor. (Did OkCupid? Tinder?)

Moroever, it seems that users were not properly notified of the 'good actors use' of their data.

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Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by bluesign on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:14PM (#18623451)
Actually in the document published, it is pretty clear. Reciprocity part is explaining clearly. (especially strategic competitors)

The key point is 'equitable value exchange'.

If I am building a social network, leaching user/data from facebook, it is different than creating an app inside facebook ecosystem. This is the main distinction I guess.

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Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by traek on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:57AM (#18625875)
> 'Bumble' got special access because FB is an investor. (Did OkCupid? Tinder?)

I think you misread the article. Facebook wasn't an investor in Bumble. Badoo was an investor in Bumble along with owning other dating services which were whitelisted. Facebook was also not (that I can find online) an investor in Badoo.

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Re:Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' by bluesign on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:19PM (#18623491)
tbh I don't know any special access bumble got, from outside tinder and bumble doesn't look much different on facebook usage.
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