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Kashmir Hill
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Remember when Amazon was taking down book reviews by people it thought knew the author personally and people were wondering how in the world Amazon knew that imysantiago.com/2015/07/02/ama…
This new NYT report sheds light on how Amazon may have determined book reviewers were connected to a book’s author nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
Amazon reportedly had a secret data sharing agreement with Facebook and it explains SO much gizmodo.com/amazon-and-fac…
That PYMK keeps popping up as a problematic use of data by Facebook in various internal documents leaked and seized recently makes me feel like I’ve been onto something all these years. Also makes it seem extra troubling that Facebook has never let me actually talk to PYMK team.
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Facebook found that children playing games had “spent a whopping $3.6 million” during a three-month period. Why were these court records even sealed in the first place? revealnews.org/article/facebo…
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... and refuse refunds to kids who run up debt paying for virtual goods in games.
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Kashmir Hill
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In the summer of 2017, I asked Facebook if it used signals from "third parties such as data brokers" for friend recommendations. Kicking myself for not recognizing the evasion in their answer.

1. FB's answer via email

2 What the NYT found out about PYMK in internal FB docs
Facebook's continuing purposeful evasion to explaining how People You May Know works is infuriating. Thank god for leakers and lawsuits. (And thank you for the shout-out to my reporting, NYT.)
Oh and, duh, a link to the NYT. It's a wild story that you should definitely read. nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
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