Facebook Sees ‘Many Open Questions’ in Years-Long Privacy Pivot
- Company suggests that ‘metadata’ could be shared with ad unit
- Senator Hawley, a big tech critic, ‘shocked’ by company letter
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Facebook Inc. says there are still “many open questions” about how it will use and keep data such as users’ Internet Protocol addresses as part of its years-long plans to focus on privacy through messaging and groups.
Nearly three months after announcing that the company would address a series of privacy missteps by rebuilding many of its features to emphasize smaller groups and ephemeral and encrypted communication, Facebook cited unresolved questions around so-called metadata and suggested it could be shared with the company’s advertising arm in a letter to Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican.