Facebook's super-outage happened as news broke of a U.S. criminal investigation into them
federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies.”
The crux of these latest allegations relates to secret data deals that provided leading technology companies with access to seemingly private user data - including lists of friends and private messages. It is yet more of the same post-Cambridge Analytica - private data being treated as a tradable commodity, with no thought to the implications or ethics of doing so. Perhaps time has now belatedly been called and the leading protagonists will be finally held to account. We will see.
"We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the company tweeted, adding. “We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.”
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