Embarrassing PDF fail reveals Facebook considered selling access to data

It turns out Facebook did at one point consider selling its users’ data.

We now know this not because Facebook executives had a sudden urge for transparency, but because of a bungled PDF that wasn’t properly redacted.

That error, which was reported by ArsTechnica, resulted in a number of email exchanges among Facebook employees being unintentionally made public. The court documents, which stem from a 2015 lawsuit against Facebook by a developer called Six4Three, are currently at the center of an inquiry by UK government officials into Facebook’s data privacy practices.  Read more…

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