Facebook’s Latest Privacy Mess

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Axios Managing Editor Kim Hart discusses the D.C. attorney general’s lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly misleading users about sharing their personal data with Axios tech reporter David McCabe. Plus, in the “Final Two,” the Justice Department indicts two Chinese hackers for attacking U.S. companies and agencies, and the next Congress comes to Washington in January.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Prerata podcast, a podcast that takes 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.
0:09.0	Filling in for Dan Primack, I'm Kim Hart.
0:11.0	On today's show, the Justice Department indicts two Chinese agents for hacking U.S. organizations and what the new Congress looks like come January.
0:17.4	But first, the end of year disasters for Facebook just keep piling up.
0:20.8	The latest shoot to drop is a lawsuit filed this week by the Attorney General, the end of year disasters for Facebook just keep piling up.
0:24.0	The latest shoot to drop is a lawsuit filed this week by the Attorney General of the District of Columbia. The suit alleges that Facebook knowingly misled consumers about how their
0:28.3	data was being used by other companies. That includes Cambridge Analytica, the political
0:31.9	consulting firm that improperly accessed user data, which kicks off what has felt like a never-ending
0:36.6	PR nightmare for Facebook.
0:38.0	But the suit also alleges this happened as part of broader data sharing arrangements with
0:41.7	outside partners, including device makers. The AG's office is seeking monetary damages as well
0:46.3	as new privacy protections from Facebook. The lawsuit follows other bad news for Facebook just this
0:50.6	year, which is, ironically, the year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed to
0:54.3	fix all of its problems. Those problems include security breaches and privacy lapses, foreign-sponsored
0:59.1	misinformation campaigns trying to influence the 2016 elections and growing concerns that the service
1:03.7	was designed to be addictive. In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper on what all this means for Facebook
1:07.6	going into next year with Axiast tech reporter David McCabe. But first,
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