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6 Apr, 19 tweets, 8 min read
Happy Easter. Pope Francis was *Zucked* ... sorry @Pontifex, take it up with Menlo Park.
Who wants to tell @SenWarren? I nominate @SenMarkey.
Narendra Modi. No biggie.
Let’s keep with the theme of world leaders breached by Facebook, Alex.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro.
Red hot, Alex. Let’s stay with this category. World leaders for $500. Have you been Zucked? 🇵🇰
Ok for $400, world leaders again. Have you been Zucked, 🇹🇷 ?
Ok, let’s go to our good friends north of the border, 🇨🇦. Recall Facebook argued with @CharlieAngusNDP, Canada didn’t even have jurisdiction. @beynate @AHousefather will be interested in this.
Last one in this category, we’ll head back across the pond to 🇬🇧.
Let’s move over to the category of Sports ⚽️ stars, Alex. For $500... sorry, @Cristiano.
Always a battle, Messi won’t be left out of being Zucked.
And let’s move to the most followed celebrity entertainers. @rihanna avoided the breach but not this female superstar.
Another widely followed pop music star of social media.
Will Smith, these are some of the most heavily followed people on the planet...on Facebook.
Sorry, broken thread continues here.
Snap. don’t fell my kids that Harry Potter’s email and phone number may be available from a data breach on Facebook?
Ok, one last Member of Congress. Considering Zuckerberg wouldn’t answer his awareness timeline of their previous largest breach, @aoc will want to know her recovery phone # and personal data may have been in this breach.
Ok, I’m done with my playing jeopardy to see who got caught up in this breach. Facebook called it *old news* but I bet you none of those world leaders and celebrities were informed they were swept up in it.
Alright folks. Yes, that site above ⬆️ was popped up recently so I didn’t link to it. If you want to check if you’re part of this breach or any others, highly recommend @haveibeenpwned, run by Troy Hunt. He just added phone #s as a lookup.
Also, pointing out the obvious here, Facebook should have had a role in notifying and securing the data.

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7 Apr
We're up to a couple hundred people in this Twitter Space including the technologists who discovered the Facebook vulnerability, the 500 million personal data records, and others who have spent careers trying to get Facebook to be a better company. twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDxl…
Thnx all, that⬆️seemed to be a great use of @TwitterSpaces. We had privacy researchers: @ashk4n, @intidc, @UnderTheBreach, journalists covering it: @lilyhnewman, @NicholasVinocur, @daithaigilbert, and a few hundred listeners, inquirers including very senior regulators. 1/2🙏🏾
Again, my only hope, in light of Facebook's (poor) messaging, was to get closer to truth, ID'ing public harms and solutions. A ton of press were listening in, too, and then of course we heard from @carolecadwalla who has very closely witnessed how Facebook covers up stories. 2/2
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5 Apr
This is absolutely insane. Including that we haven’t heard from Congress today. If Facebook’s breach is seen as old news then certainly 500 million people’s personal data now being posted for free and everything the company failed to do to avoid this outcome is damn important.
It’s also worth noting that Facebook has argued to Canada, UK, even local US regulators that they have no jurisdiction over Facebook’s failures to protect its user data. So who the F is in charge here? ⬆️ so far America is allowing Facebook to wreck the world.
Here is the spin by Facebook comms shared across their team and pushed out aggressively to press over the weekend to gaslight whether this is news or not.
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5 Apr
Great get, @karaswisher interview of @tim_cook. Lean-in at 8:20-16:30 as Cook brilliantly discusses why privacy is “bedrock” - “one of top issues of 21st century.” We believe data policy extends to enforcement of competition policy with Googl and Facebook. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/swa…
Cook spends time answering why any tracking company (ahem, Facebook) would be treating privacy enhancements as existential. He reconfirms iOS 14.5 (see ATT) to enhance choice to not have apps track across apps rolls out in next two weeks. 🙏🏽 and he avoids company specifics...but
it’s the right point that it’s not existential for Facebook. It just constrains Facebook’s revenues and profits from mining your behaviors when you’re not choosing to use their apps. this is a good thing, no negative effect on users. Only FB’s stock. And don’t even get me...
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3 Apr
Yes, Facebook needs heightened regulations *and* antitrust enforcement but worth pointing out we’re also here because FTC and Congress were willing to get paid off in 2018/19 rather than deal with the core issues at the company. $5 billion to protect leadership and bury cover-up.
And yes, worth noting # of US personal records in this Facebook breach is similar to the case ⬆️. And that one we only were told in a report last year was used for election harms to suppress black voters. We also learned several people likely perjured themselves. ht @slpng_giants
So yes it matters it was never properly dealt with and instead Facebook leadership was either protected, even rewriting history through press leaks, or off launching “oversight” programs at leading academic institutions while public continues to be harmed.
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30 Mar
whew, ok, I made it thru this new class action suit vs Google.
1) like state AGs, focused on ads at intersection of data policy and competition policy
2) lead also brought impressive suit vs Facebook in 2018 (still active)
3) feels more like racketeering👀
documentcloud.org/documents/2053…
there is an interesting claim how Google and Facebook mutually benefited each other enriching data. Reminder, Google merged cookies in Fall 2016 ahead of AG's alleged Facebook+Google collusion in 2017. Cites 🙏🏾WSJ/NYT reporting by @ryanjtracy @JeffHorwitz / @tiffkhsu @daiwaka.
Very interesting point: "Through this amendment, Google explicitly takes the position that nonconsensual surveillance of 'browsing history' is 'dishonest behavior.'"
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30 Mar
Watch. Canada first sent Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg a summons to testify nearly two years ago. It’s incredible Facebook can still send in this guy yesterday to make statements like this to Parliament. Of course, when UK pressed too hard, Zuckerberg threatened them. 1/2
Just watch. Another from yesterday. 2/2
They sent him in 2019 to answer Parliaments from around the globe, too.
I would argue this is the most important line of questioning connecting data policy to competition. ETHI (ethics committee) also arrived there in 2019 and it’s why FB is so freaked out by data protection changes from Apple and govts. ht @juliedabrusin
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