Facebook's morale problem is getting worse
Early on Wednesday, the United Kingdom Parliament released a 250-page trove of documents from a US lawsuit against Facebook. The trove has a colorful history, having been obtained in a hotel-room raid on a visiting businessman that may or may not have been coordinated by a crusading anti-Facebook journalist , who has stubbornly refused to comment on the matter. Facebook attempted to block the documents' release, but British lawmaker Damien Collins argued that they are in the public interest and posted them online.
What did we learn from the document dump? I group the findings into two big buckets. The first concerns data privacy ; the second is about competition. Let's look at them in order.
Data privacy is at the root of the legal case...
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