Facebook\u00a0has admitted it allowed other big tech companies to read users’ private messages, but denies it did so without consent.<\/p>\n
The response came Wednesday after an investigation \u00a0found that Facebook gave companies including Netflix, Spotify\u00a0and the\u00a0Royal Bank of Canada\u00a0the ability to read, write and delete users’ private messages. The report on Tuesday also said it permitted Microsoft\u2019s Bing search engine to view the names of nearly all of a Facebook user’s friends without consent.<\/p>\n
Facebook said it enabled partner companies like Spotify to access users’ private messages after a user had signed into Facebook through the partner company’s app.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople for Spotify and Netflix told the Times they were unaware of the broad powers Facebook had granted them, while a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) spokesperson disputed the bank had such access.<\/p>\n
Facebook stock was down more than 2 percent on Wednesday<\/p>\n
______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s a 29-year-old guy named Dave Berry Junior from Brookline, Missouri.\u00a0 And he and three of his relatives were recently busted for DEER POACHING.<\/p>\n They illegally killed hundreds of deer, took their heads, and left their bodies to rot.<\/p>\n Dave wound up getting a year in prison.\u00a0 But that’s not all . . . the judge also ruled that he has to watch Disney’s\u00a0“Bambi”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0at least once a month while he’s locked up.<\/p>\n He’ll be watching it for the first time on Sunday.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JULIA ROBERTS<\/strong>\u00a0might just have the best “And that’s when I knew I was famous” story of all time. It happened when she went home to visit her family in Georgia, and they all went to the movies.\u00a0 She had to use the restroom, and as soon as she went into the stall and sat down, she heard someone say . . . “Hey, girl in stall number one, were you in\u00a0‘Mystic Pizza’<\/strong><\/em>?”<\/p>\n When Julia admitted that it was her, the woman slid something under the stall and asked her to sign it.\u00a0 She says she told the woman “Not right now,” while thinking to herself, quote, “Wait, this is different.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201cRoss\u201d lookalike didn\u2019t show up for his court date.\u00a0 A British judge has issued an arrest warrant for the alleged shoplifter \u2014 who resembles a Friends-era David Schwimmer \u2014 after he failed to appear in court yesterday.\u00a0 36-year-old Abdulah Husseni was scheduled to appear in a Blackpool, England, court to face charges of theft and fraud. His image went viral in October after police released surveillance-camera footage of him carrying a case of beer from a restaurant \u2014 because he looked so much like Schwimmer\u2019s Friends character.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2005 [13] Actress Renee Zellweger annuls her marriage to singer Kenny Chesney citing fraud, after 4 months of marriage<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1980 [38] 1st (and only) NFL telecast with NO announcers (as a stunt, NBC-TV uses only sounds and graphics for a meaningless NY Jets-Miami Dolphins game)<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n DECEMBER 20TH<\/sup>, <\/strong>2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kenny Chesney\u00a0began a seven-week stay at #1 with<\/p>\n “There Goes My Life”<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Anyone who\u2019s worked in a restaurant knows it can be a tough environment. So a Montreal restaurant owner is determined to keep his employees happy by sending the entire team on a week-long trip to Cuba.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re going to love us,\u201d said Nicolas Delrieu, who owns Le Speakeasy restaurant. \u201cAfter we go to Cuba, they\u2019re going to say, \u2018Okay, wow, our bosses are great. Let\u2019s stay here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All 25 staff members will be flown to Veradero later this winter, where they\u2019ll spend seven days hanging out at an all-inclusive resort.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Employee Alex Forget said he was surprised by the bonus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMy friends are actually pretty impressed. They\u2019ve never heard of anything like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Flying the whole staff of a restaurant for a group holiday may seem unusual, but the practice is increasingly common in the business world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are more than 100,000 job vacancies in Quebec, and employers are offering perks to keep good workers on the payroll.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Inzlicht, who runs the recruiting firm Proforce Personnel, said he\u2019s never seen employers so desperate to please their staff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so insane that you have people that are offering signing bonuses just to get started, and on the other side you have people offering retention bonuses not to leave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [35] Jonah Hill, actor (\u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d, \u201c21 Jump Street\u201d) COMING UP\u2026\u201dThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part\u201d 2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S YOUR TAKE?………………..<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Should This Woman Really Charge Her Family Members $21 Each For Christmas Dinner?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A woman in England\u00a0posted online about her mother-in-law CHARGING for Christmas dinner this year.\u00a0 She wants about $21 per person from EVERYONE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh . . . and it’s not because she feels like she should be paid for the cooking.\u00a0 She’s charging because she’s getting carry-out which is more expensive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So . . . is that fair?\u00a0 Or is it ridiculous?\u00a0 The responses to the woman’s post are split right down the middle . . . and both sides are very passionate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But one person DID take a fairly level-headed middle ground approach that’s worth sharing.\u00a0 Quote, “People who see it as charging family are horrified, people who see it as sharing costs don’t see the issue.”<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Top Ten Reasons for Regifting a Present<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A poll of 2,000 people found 46% of us wish we could just pick out our own Christmas gifts, so we’d get stuff we actually want.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The survey also asked people about stuff they’ve regifted . . . returned . . . or just tossed in the trash, and WHY they did it.\u00a0 Here are the top ten reasons . . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0———————————————————————————————————————<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n THURSDAY DECEMBER 20TH<\/sup> 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