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Facebook removed from S&P list of ethical companies after data scandals
The Telegraph ^ | June 13, 2019 | Margi Murphy

Posted on 06/21/2019 4:54:09 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Poor governance and privacy concerns have knocked Facebook out of an influential ethics index that tracks socially responsible companies. 

Standard & Poor's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Index said that it had booted Facebook after the company scored poorly for social responsibility and governance, achieving 22 and 6, respectively, out of 100. 

Facebook's disappointing results were due to a number of privacy concerns at the social network in recent years including “a lack of transparency as to why Facebook collects and shares certain user information”, said Reid Steadman, S&P's social and governance chief. 

This includes allowing more than 150 companies access to more users' personal

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; media; privacy; sandp; security; social; standardpoor

1 posted on 06/21/2019 4:54:09 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: upchuck

ping


2 posted on 06/21/2019 4:54:43 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
Good post Jyotishi.

This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

3 posted on 06/21/2019 4:56:35 PM PDT by upchuck (No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
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To: Jyotishi

Thanks for the ping. :)

You were pinging me at the same time I was posting the ping list.


4 posted on 06/21/2019 4:58:00 PM PDT by upchuck (No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
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To: Jyotishi

I got banned from FB today for mentioning that several of the high ranking Nazis were homosexual. They said it didn’t meet their community standards. WTF? Factual history doesn’t meet community standards or was FB approving of Nazis as long as they were homosexual and they are protecting the facts?


5 posted on 06/21/2019 5:08:15 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Jyotishi

LOL this continues the practice of downgrading housing bubble bonds after they’ve already blown sky high.


6 posted on 06/21/2019 5:09:47 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Jyotishi

6/100. Zuckerberg is not pleased. He has to rein in his gang of fools.


7 posted on 06/21/2019 5:11:23 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: vetvetdoug

Goering was a cross-dresser


8 posted on 06/21/2019 5:13:18 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: BigEdLB

I made it known years ago that I do not and will not play in the FB sandbox. One of the best decisions I ever made.


9 posted on 06/21/2019 5:31:15 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Jyotishi

CBS, ABCDisney, NBC, etc etc?


10 posted on 06/21/2019 5:48:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Jyotishi
“a lack of transparency as to why Facebook collects and shares certain user information”

Looks like Fakebook might have a bit of a rough ride with the proglibs dream, a Chinese style Social Credit Score system.

Fakebook - you are Fined 20 Million Credits!

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11 posted on 06/21/2019 6:40:00 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Jyotishi

LOL


12 posted on 06/21/2019 6:41:30 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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