No where in this article do they say users gave consent to have their information shared which they were required to do before such services could be implemented. At best, that's bad reporting and misleading at worst it's an agenda.

I really don’t think you are doing your employer any favors by your transparently obtuse attempts to misrepresent the actual content of the accusations.

i don't work for FB anymore. The content of the accusation leave out two critical pieces. 1. Users gave consent to share private information. 2. Only publicly available information was shared these partners. Those are pretty important omissions in my opinion.

The article clearly says users did not consent. And even if they did, that would presumably clash with your other assertion, namely that “only publicly available information was shared”.

So I stand by my accusation that you are pretending to be stupid, because no person working at Facebook would really be unable to find the accusation of private data being shared in an article titled “Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages”

You seem to be asserting that you have knowledge of the situation, enough to dispute the article. And you're an ex-employee of FB. That's most interesting. What else can you tell us? Be detailed.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

Thinly veiled insults at someone who used to work for facebook is hardly within the rules of HN. Let's not start flame wars.

I am sorry if i offend.. that is not the intention, this is an important question - is the naivety of the staff part of the problem?

maybe i am wrong but user blaming seems so very basic to me, and completely ignores how you are responsible for the things you create and the damage they do - and the false confidence or foolish acts they lead people into.

I would like to believe that on average we are ready to just not accept user blaming for privacy and security issues. if they are not qualified to wield the tools then we should not have given them out. as in: "blaming the user is an immature response" seems like a statement it should be okay to say.