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Facebook planned to sell users' data in 2012: Report
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IANS | 12 Jan, 2019
Facebook considered selling users' data to companies some years ago but later decided to act against it, the media reported.
According
to Arstechnica.com that viewed an unredacted court document, Facebook
staff in 2012 considered charging companies at least $250,000 for
"access to one of its primary troves of user data -- the Graph API".
"In April 2014, Facebook changed the way the previously permissive Graph API works.
"The
social media giant restricted some data access and eliminated all
access to the earlier version by June 2015," the report said on Friday.
The
Wall Street Journal also reported that "Facebook employees discussed
pushing some advertisers to spend more in return for increased access to
user information".
A failure on Facebook's part to adequately redact a public court document revealed this information.
According
to Arstechnica.com, Facebook gave "extended access to the v1.0 of Graph
API to numerous companies not only including Nissan and Royal Bank of
Canada but now also to Chrysler/Fiat, Lyft, Airbnb, and Netflix, among
others".
A Facebook spokesperson, however, was quoted as saying
that Chrysler/Fiat and the other companies, besides Nissan and Royal
Bank of Canadaa, were listed erroneously in the court document.
The
news comes on the heel of the British Parliament obtaining a set of
internal Facebook documents from US software company Six4Three that has
sued the social media giant over what it claims are fraudulent breaches
of contract.
Facebook, however, defended itself, saying that
Six4Three's "claims have no merit, and we will continue to defend
ourselves vigorously".
Now defunct, Six4Three in a new filing to a
California lawsuit in May 2018 alleged that Facebook collected
information on users and their friends through its apps.
The filing was part of a suit brought against Facebook in 2015 by Six4Three.
To
collect the information, Facebook used several methods including
tracking users' locations, reading their text messages and accessing
their photos on phones, according to the allegations as reported by the
Guardian.
In March, Facebook admitted it collected data from people's calls and texts but said it had prior consent.
However the Guardian reported that it logged some messages without explicitly notifying users.
Six4Three sued Facebook over its app Pikinis, which allowed users to zoom in on bikini photos.
It alleged that Facebook tracked users, sometimes without their express consent.
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