mo4ch:>Facebook helps phone companies gather user data, including their 'creditworthiness' – report | Mo4ch News

Facebook has supplied phone companies with customers' private data without their knowledge or consent, and even helped those companies use Facebook behavior to evaluate users' creditworthiness, documents reportedly show.The social network supplied data on location, interests, and friend groupings to phone carriers and manufacturers without users' permission – data that went far beyond mere technical specs. Users' activity on Facebook, Instagram and even Messenger was fair game for data-mining, and the platform encouraged and even assisted over 100 global telecoms to use customers' data for purposes including evaluating their creditworthiness, according to documents seen by the Intercept, which suggest the program is still going on.Also on rt.comFacebook hires ‘co-writer’ of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacyFacebook data scientists working on its "Actionable Insights" program developed an algorithm to exclude customers wit…