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EXCLUSIVE: Lawfirm repping FB in $20B tax case is also aiding Oversight Board

EXCLUSIVE: Lawfirm repping FB in $20B tax case is also aiding Oversight Board

Tatiana Prophet
Big Tech

By Tatiana Prophet

Baker McKenzie, an elite global law firm, has been representing Facebook in a now 20-billion-dollar legal claim by the IRS at the same time that the firm has been involved in staffing the tech giant’s Oversight Board. While the trial began in February 2020, there has been a veritable news blackout on the courtroom events.

On Wednesday, the Oversight Board ruled that Facebook could uphold its restriction of President Donald Trump’s account for six more months, but cautioned that the company needed a procedure and criteria by which to take action and impose penalties.

Protect your info

Protect your info

Tatiana Prophet
Privacy

How to quickly find out which apps are using your user info, and shut it down

By TATIANA PROPHET

I have been sharing Facebook info – real info like photos and birthdate – with 98 digital applications, and I had no idea. That my birthdate was being shared with app developers was especially annoying; on my Facebook “proper” privacy settings, my birthdate is visible only to me. Yet there are 98 apps, including Five-Star Slots, Ancestry and Flixster, that have access to my birthdate, my work history, my political persuasion and my photos.

Do you know where your data is? I thought I knew. But since I joined Facebook 10 years ago, the places I consented to leave my data have now faded as quickly as where I went for lunch last week.