Facebook wanted banks to fork over customer data passing through Messenger
Found on The Verge on Wednesday, 19 September 2018
A new report from The Wall Street Journal today indicates that Facebook also saw its Messenger platform as a siphon for the sensitive financial data of its users, information it would not otherwise have access to unless a customer interacted with, say, a banking institution over chat.
In some cases, companies like PayPal and Western Union negotiated special contracts that would let them offer many detailed and useful services like money transfers, the WSJ reports. But by and large, big banks in the US have reportedly shied away from working with Facebook due to how aggressively it pushed for access to customer data.
Facebook has learned nothing at all from the past scandals. On the other hand, the question is who to blame: Facebook itself, who does all that because it can get away with it, or the userbase who does not care at all. Maybe Zucky wasn't so wrong when he called the users "dumb fucks".