Tech News: Meta Is Going to Court Again
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🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Mark Zuckerberg is going to have to appear in a federal court to answer questions about his alleged involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meanwhile, an art installation company is also suing Meta for being a copycat. Plus lots more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:11.9 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how |
| 0:17.4 | the tech are yet. |
| 0:18.9 | It's time for the tech news for Thursday, July 21st, 2022. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's get to it with some stories about Meta. |
| 0:26.4 | A class action lawsuit filed against Meta means that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former CEO Cheryl |
| 0:34.1 | Sandberg will each have to testify in federal court regarding their alleged roles in the |
| 0:39.9 | Cambridge Analytica scandal. |
| 0:42.9 | And it seems like a lifetime since that scandal first became public. |
| 0:47.0 | Now in case you do not know what that scandal was all about, a British political consultancy |
| 0:53.0 | firm that worked with conservative political campaigns here in the States, leveraged |
| 0:59.4 | data that had been scraped from Facebook. |
| 1:02.6 | So there was this app developer slash professor who had treated a political survey app and |
| 1:09.6 | it was a pay for survey. |
| 1:11.4 | So you would get paid if you took it. |
| 1:13.9 | But what the people who took the survey didn't know is that by granting the app permission, |
| 1:20.2 | it gave the app an elevated ability to see and to not just their own personal information, |
| 1:27.3 | but that of their friends on Facebook. |
| 1:29.8 | So the app essentially made it possible for the app developer to look at |
| 1:35.2 | friend profiles as if the developer were in fact that person's friend. |
| 1:40.7 | And so the app was able to collect massive amounts of information from people who never |
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