Listen well to what Snowden has said: Facebook is a 'monitoring company' that collects and sells user data.

Facebook is making the profit by exploiting and selling intimate details of the private lives of millions of users of their social network, far more than the tiny details that volunteers put on the net

Whistler Edward Snowden, a former US NSA spy agency employee, wrote on Saturday that Facebook was "a surveillance company" selling personal information of its users, in parallel with the scandal that came to the media, which included a private company that collected data from social media company.

"The companies that earn money on collecting and selling detailed records of private lives have been clearly described as 'supervisory companies'," a former employee of the National Security Agency has written.

"Their purpose and meaning as" social media "is the most successful deception in history since the Ministry of War became the Ministry of Defense."

Snowden's threefold remark, shared over Twitter over 30,000 times, comes amid announcements that Cambridge Analytica, a private data analysis company working with Donald Trump's electoral team, collected more than 50 million Facebook users without personal information Knowledges.

Facebook last week suspended access to the Cambridge Analytica platform last week, arguing that the company and the two individuals who helped gather massive data sets mislead the social media giant.

"In the light of new reports that the data was not destroyed, we have stopped these three sides from Facebook, in anticipation of further information," the company said.

"We will take all the necessary steps to see the data go away once and for all" and take measures against all sides for which it has been confirmed that the principle of action has been violated. "

Commenting on the New York Times report on unexpected data leakage, Snowden said Facebook was not Cambridge Analytica, the one that should be considered responsible.

"Facebook is gaining money by exploiting and selling intimate details of the private lives of millions of users of their social network, far beyond the tiny details that volunteers put into the net. They are not victims. They are associates, "he wrote on Twitter.

Facebook has stated that Cambridge Analytica data collection methods do not represent a formal breach because users have technically agreed - through the "labyrinthine" social network privacy settings - that data is used for different purposes.

Cambridge Analytica is owned by billionaire Robert Mercer's hedge fund, and was previously run by ex-Trump's adviser Steve Bannon. Trump's campaign allegedly paid $ 5 million to the company to help target voters.

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Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.

12:12 AM - Mar 18, 2018

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