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Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

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[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want private messaging - use Signal.
If you use any kind of messaging on commercial platforms, expect immediate loss of privacy. They call them "direct" messages for a reason.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good luck being private when your phone number is attached to all your messages. I'll see you on Wire.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was fixed a month ago https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. That doesn't eliminate the need to use a phone number! It's just 'hidden'.

[–] Undertaker@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

That's not the point. It was statet that each message is associated with the number. But it isn't. The only way to achieve this in Signal is getting into your phone.

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Meta is a dog shit in the middle of a dumpster. Episode 36384927339