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Facebook fears that the confidential internal documents published by Parliament earlier this week may only be a fraction of what has been leaked.Lawyers for the social media giant told a California judge on Friday that they still did not know what other material might now be in circulation and might soon be released.The emails and memos, seized last month by members of parliament from an American app developer, Ted Kramer, and published on Wednesday, are part of a legal archive thought to include hundreds of thousands of documents. ...Among them were emails showing that Facebook tried to strangle its competitors by cutting off their access to its data, as well as emails in which Facebook employees discussed how to read users' mobile phone logs without prompting a dialogue box asking for their consent. ...
Facebook's staff feel like they are under siege.Every few days there seems to be a fresh accusation or leak that paints the social network in the worst possible light and calls into question whether it poses a threat to its members, wider society and even democracy itself.The latest barrage came in the form of a tranche of "confidential" internal emails published online by MPs, who have been smarting that chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to testify before them.As Damian Collins, the chair of the Parliamentary committee responsible, put it , if they could not get "straight answers" from Mr Zuckerberg then at least the emails could reveal how his firm treats users' data and protects its "dominant position". ... BBC
