Facebook's Super-Outage Comes As News Breaks Of A U.S. Criminal Investigation Into Them

federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies.”

The crux of these latest allegations relates to secret data deals that provided leading technology companies with access to seemingly private user data - including lists of friends and private messages. It is yet more of the same post-Cambridge Analytica - private data being treated as a tradable commodity, with no thought to the implications or ethics of doing so. Perhaps time has now belatedly been called and the leading protagonists will be finally held to account. We will see.

"We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the company tweeted, adding. “We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.”

Oooooo so rare

The crux of these latest allegations relates to secret data deals that provided leading technology companies with access to seemingly private user data – including lists of friends and PRIVATE messages. So Elizabeth Warren was right? Shocking. FaceCrook

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Why store data when you can sell them? If it goes this way in a few years there will be auction like 'Most embarrassing messages by Mehedi goes to MegaToilet for 1 usd'

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Would be funny to see Facebook cancel its services in America.

It's pretty weird. Because the super outage did not affect all users but just a number of them, globally. I checked with neighbours whether they could log in last night. They could. I couldn't. Then FB was back for a while, an now it's out again for me. I'm not the only one.

It’s not an outage it’s a reroute of all feeds to government agency.

The purge....

Facebook began as a cute puppy, it's now a full grown rabid dog. ShutItDown

Couldn’t have to a better company

How convenient. 🤔

I think they just crashed again.

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Facebook under criminal investigation over data sharing deals, says New York Times reportFederal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into Facebook's data sharing deals with a number of large technology companies, according to a new report in the New York Times. This feels like a story both sides of the aisle can agree on. What companies are doing with individual data needs to become A LOT more transparent!
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