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Minor point of confusion -- this article refers multiple times to a "data breach". ("...one of the largest-ever breaches of Facebook data...", "At the time of
by loxias 9y ago
Minor point of confusion -- this article refers multiple times to a "data breach". ("...one of the largest-ever breaches of Facebook data...", "At the time of the data breach...", "...first reported the breach...")
As far as I can tell, there is no data breach, right? It sounds like CA got facebook data through an app they wrote, thisisyourdigitallife, which did some shady things.
Also, "The New York Times is reporting that copies of the data harvested for Cambridge Analytica could still be found online".
The link is: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
Anyone know what they're talking about? I haven't heard of any 50-million-profile data dump, and I really like collecting corpora...
- gscott 9y agoExactly it's confusing how they're using the word data breach like something wrong happened.
- frankzinger 9y agoIt wasn't a breach as we know it. Basically FB gave the data away. Apps have access to the data but they're not allowed to give/sell it to third parties. In this case the rules were ignored. Probably many other companies with API access have also ignored the rules. In this case FB didn't make much of an effort at all to prevent it from happening so it's reasonable to assume the practice is rampant. There's likely many copies of large parts of FB data out there (left on laptops on trains or on unprotected FTP/HTTP servers, etc.). It's a 'breach' from the users' perspective.