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Pivot

Facebook’s latest scandal and the "tyranny of technology"

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology, News Commentary

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott breakdown yet another Facebook scandal. This time, it turns out Facebook was passing on private user message data to partners like Netflix and Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:10.6

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0:14.5

That's a-z-u-r-e.com slash trial.

0:18.5

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:30.0

I'm Cara Swisher.

0:31.0

And I'm Scott Galloway, staring at Cara Swisher, which is-

0:34.0

Which is for a moment.

0:35.0

An enormous treat in the same room so you can probably feel that the banter and the electricity

0:39.9

in your buzz are being in the same room, Cara.

0:41.8

Yes, here we are.

0:42.8

Here we are.

0:43.8

So there's a lot to talk about.

0:44.8

So let's get into it because we've only got a few more shows before the new year.

0:47.9

But obviously again, we're talking about Facebook.

0:50.5

Another story from the New York Times again about Facebook's violation of privacy, which

0:55.4

is something they've been doing since the beginning.

0:58.4

But a really bad one again, selective handing out of information to different groups,

1:02.8

depending on partnerships and things like that.

1:05.2

And what is your sense of how was this determined?

1:08.2

Was this pure oversight or was it a pay to play thing?

1:10.8

Who got specialized-

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