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...you mean facebook said "don't keep this" and then they kept it? And people are calling that a breach?
by darawk 9y ago
...you mean facebook said "don't keep this" and then they kept it? And people are calling that a breach?
- cryptoz 9y agoYes, that's what Facebook said. And yes, people are calling it a breach because of that. Because it is. If you pay a company for a service, and then use the service against the terms of use, putting millions of people into danger, you have created a massive data breach of unauthorized data access that has massive real-world physical consequences. This was a data breach of the highest order.
- dragonwriter 9y agoWell, no, the breach happened when the data was acquired under false (bogus “academic use”) pretenses and then transferred to CA, thus taking personal data contrary to both the will of the subjects and the policy of the entity through which it was taken; the “dont keep this” was a (pitiful) post-breach mitigation effort by Facebook.