Facebook thought about charging business for access to user information

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Internal Facebook e-mails supposedly reveal the social networks giant thought about charging business for access to user information.


James Martin/ CNET.

Facebook thought about charging business for access to user information a number of years earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, mentioning internal Facebook e-mails in an unredacted court file.

Facebook staff members likewise talked about motivating marketers to invest more cash on the service in exchange for increased access to user info, the e-mails in the file supposedly reveal. Monetizing its user information would mark a significant about-face of the social networks giant’s longstanding policy of not offering that info.

During testament prior to Congress in April about the business’s information managing practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated: “I can’t be clearer on this topic. We don’t sell data, that’s not how advertising works.”

Facebook stated the discussions consisted of in the e-mails were from years earlier which the business eventually chose versus charging for access to user information. The business likewise stated the files are existing in a deceptive method, without context.

“Evidence has been sealed by a California court so we are not able to disprove every false accusation,” Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook’s director of designer platforms and programs, stated in a declaration. “We stand by the platform changes we made in 2015 to stop a person from sharing their friends’ data with developers. Any short-term extensions granted during this platform transition were to prevent the changes from breaking user experience.”

“To be clear, Facebook has never sold anyone’s data,” Konstantinos stated. “Our APIs have always been free of charge and we have never required developers to pay for using them, either directly or by buying advertising.”

The e-mails are supposedly consisted of in a cache of internal Facebook files took just recently by an agent of the UKParliament The took files were acquired throughout the discovery procedure in a suit submitted by defunct app maker Six4Three that declares Facebook developed personal privacy loopholes that enabled Cambridge Analytica to acquire Facebook user information.

The files are thought to consist of personal internal interactions amongst Facebook executives, consisting of Zuckerberg, concerning Facebook’s organization design. They likewise include an e-mail from a Facebook engineer informing senior individuals in the business to capacity Russian disturbance on the platform as early as 2014, a member of Parliament statedTuesday

Damian Collins, who heads Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, stated throughout a hearing Tuesday that the UK federal government may launch files “within the next week.”

First releasedNov 28, 4: 27 p.m. PT.
Update, 5: 40 p.m.: Adds Facebook remark.

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