{"id":17146,"date":"2019-07-18T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-accused-of-contradicting-itself-on-claims-about-platform-policy-violations.html"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:30:16","slug":"facebook-accused-of-contradicting-itself-on-claims-about-platform-policy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-accused-of-contradicting-itself-on-claims-about-platform-policy-violations.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook accused of contradicting itself on claims about platform policy violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepare your best * unsurprised face *: Facebook <\/a> is being accused of contradicting itself in separate testimonies made on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The chair of a U.K. parliamentary committee that spent the lion\u2019s share of last year investigating online disinformation, going on to grill multiple Facebook execs as part of an enquiry that coincided with a global spotlight being cast on Facebook as a result of the Cambridge Analytica <\/a> data misuse scandal, has penned another letter<\/a> to the company \u2014 this time asking which versions of claims it has made regarding policy-violating access to data by third-party apps on its platform are actually true.<\/p>\n

In the letter, which is addressed to Facebook global spin chief and former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, Damian Collins <\/a> cites paragraph 43 of the Washington, DC Attorney General\u2019s complaint against the company<\/a> \u2014 which asserts that the company \u201cknew of other third party applications [i.e. in addition to the quiz app used to siphon data off to Cambridge Analytica] that similarly violated its Platform Policy through selling or improperly using consumer data,\u201d and also failed to take \u201creasonable measures\u201d to enforce its policy.<\/p>\n

The Washington, DC Attorney General, Karl Racine, is suing Facebook <\/a>for failing to protect user data \u2014 per allegations filed last December.<\/p>\n

Collins\u2019 letter notes Facebook\u2019s denial of the allegations in paragraph 43 \u2014 before raising apparently contradictory evidence the company gave the committee last year on multiple occasions, such as the testimony of its CTO Mike Schroepfer<\/a>, who confirmed it is reviewing whether Palantir improperly used Facebook data, among \u201clots\u201d of other apps of concern; and testimony by Facebook\u2019s Richard Allan to an international grand committee<\/a> last November when the VP of EMEA public policy claimed the company has \u201ctaken action against a number of applications that failed to meet our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter also cites evidence contained in documents the DCMS committee seized from Six4Three<\/a>, pertaining to a separate lawsuit against Facebook, which Collins asserts demonstrates \u201cthe lax treatment of abusive apps and their developments by Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also writes that these documents show Facebook had special agreements with a number of app developers \u2014 that allowed some preinstalled apps to \u201ccircumvent users\u2019 privacy settings or platform settings, and to access friends\u2019 information,\u201d as well as noting that Facebook whitelisted some 5,200 apps \u201caccording to our evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence provided by representatives of Facebook to this Select committee and the International Grand Committee as well as the Six4Three files directly contradict with Facebook\u2019s answer to Paragraph 43 of the complaint filed against Facebook by the Washington, D.C. Attorney General,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the version of events presented in the answer to the lawsuit is correct, this means the evidence given to this Committee and the International Grand Committee was inaccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins goes on to ask Facebook to \u201cconfirm the truthfulness\u201d of the evidence given by its reps last year, and to provide the list of applications removed from its platform in response to policy violations \u2014 which, in November, Allan promised to provide the committee with but has so far failed to do so.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also reached out to Facebook to ask which of the versions of events it\u2019s claimed are true is the one it\u2019s standing by at this time.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0<\/strong>A Facebook spokesperson sent us this statement:<\/p>\n

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In a recent court filing, Facebook denied an allegation which in part states that Facebook has failed to take reasonable measures to enforce its platform policies against third party apps. This is entirely consistent with the information provided to the DCMS committee and the International Grand Committee. As the letter from Mr Collins makes clear, Facebook has indeed taken action to enforce its policies including by banning apps. It is standard practice in US litigation filings like this to deny allegations that are inaccurate, as is the case here. We will of course respond to the committee\u2019s letter in due course.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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