Editor's Pick: Facebook Staffers Once Brainstormed Ways to Sell User Data: Report

Facebook Staffers Once Brainstormed Ways to Sell User Data: Report

Richard Adhikari Nov 30, 2018 5:00 AM PT
	Facebook at one time considered charging companies for access to its user data, according to a report based on three pages of unredacted material from an 18-page document showing portions of some internal Facebook emails, mainly from about 2012 to 2014. The documents are linked to a lawsuit, Six4Three LLC v. Facebook Inc., alleging that Facebook's data policies were anticompetitive. [More...]

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