Google, Apple, and Snap Aren't Happy About Meta's Poorly-redacted Slides (theverge.com) 13
During Meta's antitrust trial this week, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. From a report: Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors "egregious," with Apple's representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with its internal information in the future. Google's attorney also blamed Meta for jeopardizing the search giant's data with the mistake.
Details about the attorneys' comments come from The Verge's Lauren Feiner, who is currently in the courtroom where proceedings are taking place today. Apple, Google, and Meta did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment. Snap declined to comment. Snap's attorney maligned Meta's "cavalier approach and casual disregard" of other companies swept into the case, and wondered if "Meta would have applied meaningful redactions if it were its own information that was at stake."
Details about the attorneys' comments come from The Verge's Lauren Feiner, who is currently in the courtroom where proceedings are taking place today. Apple, Google, and Meta did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment. Snap declined to comment. Snap's attorney maligned Meta's "cavalier approach and casual disregard" of other companies swept into the case, and wondered if "Meta would have applied meaningful redactions if it were its own information that was at stake."
Still better than Hegseth's group chat. (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Still better than Hegseth's group chat. (Score:2)
Half-assing is so 2025 (Score:2, Insightful)
Facebook is just trying to fit in. They're looking at the Trump administration and realizing the bar is on the floor. Any effort is too much. Considering consequences is a waste of time.
Meta being cavalier with other people's things? (Score:3)
You're telling me that the people who's motto is 'move fast and break things' and who let a genocide happen on their platform aren't particularly careful with other company's data? Shocked, shocked I am!
In other news, the sky is blue and water continues to be wet.
How did The Verge get a copy? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Generally you have to file documents with the court and they are public.
Oopsie (Score:2)
Probably just incompetence (Score:2)
"Business" morons like to do such redacting themselves, without ever running it past an actual IT or IT security expert. Dunning-Kruger effect at work. And yes, there have been by far enough stories about such failures than anybody halfway competent knows this is not easy to do right.
Which Company? (Score:2)
So are we laughing at PowerPoint or Google Slides?
Transparency (Score:2)
Looks like not only Meta has to reveal some interna in that case.