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Posted on 12/05/2018 6:38:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
SAN FRANCISCO — Internal Facebook emails published online by U.K. lawmakers, some involving CEO Mark Zuckerberg, paint a picture of a company aggressively hunting for ways to make money from the reams of personal information it was collecting from users.
Wednesday's release of some 250 pages of emails from 2012 to 2015 – a period of dramatic growth for the newly publicly traded company - provides a rare glimpse into Facebook's internal conversations, suggesting the social media giant gave preferential access to some third-party app developers such as Airbnb, Lyft and Netflix while restricting access for other app developers and considered charging app developers for access to data despite pledges that it would never do so.
According to some of the emails, Facebook discussed cutting off access to rival companies and giving app developers who bought advertising special access to data. It also provided access to app developers when it would encourage Facebook users to spend more time on the social network.
There is no indication that Facebook went forward with a proposal to charge app developers for access to the personal information of Facebook users. On Wednesday Zuckerberg denied Facebook ever sold or considered selling the data of its more than 2 billion users.
"Like any organization, we had a lot of internal discussion and people raised different ideas. Ultimately, we decided on a model where we continued to provide the developer platform for free and developers could choose to buy ads if they wanted," he wrote in a Facebook post responding to the release of internal emails by U.K. lawmakers. "Other ideas we considered but decided against included charging developers for usage of our platform, similar to how developers pay to use Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. To be clear, that's different from selling people's data. We've never...
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