Facebook’s evolution on privacy

April 21, 2010

Facebook’s platform begins allowing apps to see data about users’ friends.

May 18, 2012

Facebook goes public, launching on the stock market.

December 13, 2012

Ted Kramer formally incorporates his app development company, Six4Three.

January 31, 2013

Facebook announces that it has more mobile users than desktop users.

April 2013

Six4Three’s app Pikinis, which allows users to find photos of their friends in bikinis, is called “creepy” in the media.

April 30, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech on privacy and changes to Facebook’s platform. He announces the end of permissive data sharing with apps, to take effect in a year.

April 10, 2015

Six4Three sues Facebook over the data sharing change.

April 30, 2015

Facebook ends permissive data sharing with apps.

January 27, 2016

Facebook reports record quarterly revenue, with profits more than doubling since the year before.

Feb. 14, 2019

U.K. parliamentary committee releases report on Facebook, including hundreds of pages of internal documents obtained from Six4Three.