Facebook Scans Your Messenger Links and Images, Reads Flagged Messages

[engine]

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]

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

[tangor]

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]

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