{"id":41336,"date":"2018-12-06T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41336"},"modified":"2018-12-06T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:23:48","slug":"heres-facebooks-former-privacy-sherpa-discussing-how-to-harm-your-facebook-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41336","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Facebook’s Former “Privacy Sherpa” Discussing How to Harm Your Facebook Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HERE\u2019S FACEBOOK\u2019S FORMER \u201cPRIVACY SHERPA\u201d DISCUSSING HOW TO HARM YOUR FACEBOOK PRIVACY<\/a><\/h3>\n
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IN 2015, RISING<\/u> star, Stanford University graduate, winner of the 13th season of \u201cSurvivor,\u201d and Facebook executive Yul Kwon was profiled<\/a> by the news outlet Fusion, which described him as \u201cthe guy standing between Facebook and its next privacy disaster,\u201d guiding the company\u2019s engineers through the dicey territory of personal data collection. Kwon described himself in the piece as a \u201cprivacy sherpa.\u201d But the day it published, Kwon was apparently chatting with other Facebook staffers about how the company could vacuum up the call logs of its users without the Android operating system getting in the way by asking for the user for specific permission, according to\u00a0confidential Facebook documents<\/a>\u00a0released today by the\u00a0British Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The document, part of a larger 250-page parliamentary trove, shows what appears to be a copied-and-pasted recap of an internal chat conversation between various Facebook staffers and Kwon, who was then the company\u2019s deputy chief privacy officer and is currently working as a product management director, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

The conversation centered around an internal push to change\u00a0which\u00a0data Facebook\u2019s Android app had access to, to grant the software the ability to record a user\u2019s text messages and call history, to interact with bluetooth beacons<\/a> installed by physical stores, and to offer better customized friend suggestions and news feed rankings . This would be a momentous decision for any company, to say nothing of one with Facebook\u2019s privacy track record and reputation, even in 2015, of sprinting through ethical minefields. \u201cThis is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it,\u201d\u00a0Michael\u00a0LeBeau, a Facebook product manager<\/a>, is quoted in the document as saying of the change.<\/p>\n

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HERE\u2019S FACEBOOK\u2019S FORMER \u201cPRIVACY SHERPA\u201d DISCUSSING HOW TO HARM YOUR FACEBOOK PRIVACY IN 2015, RISING star, Stanford University graduate, winner of the 13th season of \u201cSurvivor,\u201d and Facebook executive Yul Kwon was profiled by the news outlet Fusion, which described him as \u201cthe guy standing between Facebook and its next privacy disaster,\u201d guiding the company\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1493,18750,652,15125,5567,23370],"class_list":["post-41336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-personal-data","tag-privacy","tag-sam-biddle","tag-the-intercept","tag-yul-kwon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41337,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions\/41337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}