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New twist on the case Cambridge Analytica: the documents internal to Facebook seized by the British Parliament could bring many clues about the privacy policy of the social network before the scandal.
British parliament launches offensive
After Mark Zuckerberg's repeated refusal to come to London to answer the questions of the members of an international committee – the initiative of which comes back to the British – in the context of the Cambridge Analytica case, but also concerning the debate about fakes news, the British parliament has decided to go on the offensive, in a rather special way.
Sunday, November 25, the British Assembly has indeed announced having found the documents internal to Facebook. They would contain revelations about its privacy policy including information shared with third-party applications before the scandal. In addition, this file would also contain confidential e-mails between Mark Zuckerberg and the other leaders of the social network.
A folder retrieved via the Six4Three app editor
It's unusual – a "Outstanding parliamentary mechanism" – that this file has arrived in the hands of the British Assembly. While in London for a business trip, Ted Kramer, owner of Six4Threewas forced by a Sergeant-at-Arms to provide the documents within two hours, at the risk of being imprisoned if he did not comply with the respondent order.
In trial against Facebook in the United States, Six4Three claims $ 250,000 in compensation after the social network has decided to make its application obsolete Pikinis by denying him access to user data. This application allowed to easily find the photographs of his contacts slightly dressed, in swimsuit and other bikinis. According to Ted Kramer: "Facebook itself committed the biggest data abuse in the history of the software industry". The owner of Six4Three here implies that Facebook would have allowed Cambridge Analytica to suck up user data by creating privacy loopholes.
For the moment, the documents have been filed under seal until the California court responsible for the case analyzes the validity of the parliamentary action.
Damian Collins, head of the UK Parliament's Culture and Media Committee, told The Guardian: "We could not get answers from Facebook and we thought these documents contain information of very high public interest. We believe they contain answers to some of the questions we asked about the use of data, especially by third-party developers. "
For its part, Facebook has expressed dissatisfaction in a letter written by Richard Allan, public policy officer of the network, sent Sunday to Parliament, he wrote: "We consider this to be unfounded and repeated filings show that it is more of an attack on our company than a credible legal claim".
Source: The Guardian
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