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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts) Tue Nov 27, 2018, 10:59 AM Nov 2018

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Breaking: UK MP says Facebook engineer warned company in 2014 abt Russia pulling data

Jim Sciutto ✔ @jimsciutto

Breaking: UK MP says a Facebook engineer warned the company in 2014 that actors possibly based in Russia were pulling billions of data points a day from Facebook, through Pinterest. The alleged security incident has not previously made public.

8:31 AM - Nov 27, 2018

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Sorry, Facebook and Zuckerburg fans, he is a traitor.

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Breaking: UK MP says Facebook engineer warned company in 2014 abt Russia pulling data (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Nov 2018 OP

Through Pinterest, aha! tanyev Nov 2018 #1

tanyev

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1. Through Pinterest, aha!

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Tue Nov 27, 2018, 11:15 AM

Nov 2018

I could never understand the point of Pinterest. For the user, anyway. As a platform to gather and sell data on people, I’m sure it works very well.

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