Interviews with 20 current and former Meta and Google staff say FTC consent decrees blocked some user data harvesting, but they are now outdated and inadequate
Google's doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. X: @jason_kint and @jason_kint X: Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Here is the full piece which to reporter @peard33 credit provides a lot of the history and context and doesn't get snowed by Meta's attempt to rewrite the narrative on the value of a consent decree tightening around its neck. https://www.wired.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : What a load of absolute &$&&$ garbage. Meta's chief privacy officer told me same thing in 2014. That same summer users' private data was being sold, they then covered it up for years and buried the damning platform-wide audit Zuckerberg promised Congress. Same leadership. [image]