British Parliament seizes internal Facebook documents by threatening to jail a rival exec
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/25/by-any-means-necessary.html Ted Kramer is CEO and co-founder of Six4Three, a creepy US-based machine-learning startup whose debut product was a Facebook app called Pinkini that let you search your friends' photos for pictures of them in bikinis; when Facebook shut down the app after a terms-of-service change, Six4Three sued Facebook and obtained a key trove of internal Facebook documents through the discovery process. Kramer was in London this week for work, and somehow the UK Parliament got wind of the fact that he was carrying a laptop with all those discovery documents, which have been sealed by order of a California judge. Parliament has been repeatedly trying to get Zuckberg to testify before it, even issuing threats that many believed to be hollow. The Conservative MP Damian Collins (chair of the culture, media and sport select committee) asked Kramer to turn over the Facebook docs, and Kramer demurred, saying that turning them over would risk a citation for contempt from the San Mateo Superior Court. Collins insisted, and then despatched a Parliamentary serjeant at arms to Kramer's hotel and dragged him before Parliament, where he was threatened with fines and arrest if he didn't turn over the docs. Kramer surrendered the docs to Parliament. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
