Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, December 5th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the UK Parliament Dr. Dun Dumps on Facebook,

Qualcomm fires the starter pistol on 5G rollout,

an actual test drive on Waymo's new ridehailing service,

and behind the $100 million friends deal.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As promised, the UK Parliament has released redacted copies of sensitive internal Facebook documents and communiques seized last month from a company suing Facebook.

Actually, I've linked to the PDF they released in the show notes if you want to peruse them for yourself.

At the time that I'm writing this, people are just starting to dig through the documents so I'm sure there will be some

well plenty of headlines made over the next several days but here are some of the highlights that I've been able to

pull down from the early tweets and early stories that have

popped up. It looks like Facebook entered into what are being called

whitelisting agreements with 2014. Contrast that with what Damien Collins, the chair of the Digital Culture

Media and Sport Committee that released the documents called, quote, taking

aggressive positions against apps

that Facebook thought of as competitors.

For example, there is an email showing CEO Mark Zuckerberg

personally approving a decision to deny access to Facebook data to the

app Vine.

So why might these two details be interesting?

Well, first playing favorites with your platform

can raise anti-competitive questions.

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