We dismantle Facebook’s memo defending its “Research”

Facebook today released an internal memo to minimize damage to the morale of the TechCrunch survey, which revealed that it was paying people who were craving all their phone data. Designed by Business Insider's Rob Price, the memo by Pedro Canahuati, vice president of production engineering and security at Facebook, gives us more details about the data that Facebook was trying to collect from teenagers and adults in the United States and India. But he also tries to pretend that the program was not secretive or spying, and that Facebook did not see it as a violation of Apple's policy

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