- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.
Meta didn’t “give” anybody shit. They sold that access. Do you see the difference?
As always, users are the commodity.