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Facebook Scans Your Messenger Links and Images, Reads Flagged Messages

         

engine

11:05 am on Apr 6, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Facebook scans all Messenger messages for images and links, and if any messages are flagged to a moderator, the message is read.

[bloomberg.com...]

Sounds very much like the debacle over Google and Gmail scanning. [webmasterworld.com]

Travis

11:38 am on Apr 6, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Doesn't sound very GDPR-friendly too ...

tangor

11:52 am on Apr 6, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Yet another "mess up" for FB (see MZ's more recent interviews here there and red-faced on the various MSM services.

BTW, g does the same with gmail, including drafts you decide not to send or have deleted.

Marshall

1:24 pm on Apr 6, 2018 (gmt 0)

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When will it sink in that something that is free comes with a price.
 

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