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Technically perhaps correct, but for the victims it seems rather irrelevant to me. In a data breach, someone would have used a technical vulnerability or some
by anonymouz 9y ago
Technically perhaps correct, but for the victims it seems rather irrelevant to me.
In a data breach, someone would have used a technical vulnerability or some other (e.g. social engineering) vulnerability of Facebook to get illegitimate access to the data.
In this case Facebook simply gave them access to the data and took their word that they won't misuse it.
Now maybe the latter situation might not be a data breach in the classical sense, but I don't see how it makes it any better for the victims. If anything it seems worse -- Facebook didn't even try to protect their data.
- jdavis703 9y agoFacebook isn't the victim here, it's voters who may have been specifically targeted at a "physchographic" level and had their opinions unduly influenced. Further, every person who's a member of a democracy that was targeted by Cambridge Anayltica and is now being run by corrupted politicians (or in the case of Brexit by misinformed voters) is a victim.
- dreta 9y agoNobody’s saying FB’s the victim. It’s their fault, if anything. People are „unduly” influenced all the time, and by everybody. Saying CA somehow worse than anybody else just because they worked for people you don’t like is disingenuous. It’s FB that should be held accountable here; they gave away people’s personal data to a third party.
- rtx 9y agoWhy are you calling it Target by CA? Its such a great advancement in technology.
- anonymouz 9y agoYes, sorry, if that wasn't clear. By victims I mean the people whose data was harvested of course.