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>"Is it even clear that there was a 'breach' of any kind that Facebook was responsible for?" How about a breach of basic responsibility to inform users that th

>"Is it even clear that there was a 'breach' of any kind that Facebook was responsible for?" How about a breach of basic responsibility to inform users that their data has been used inappropriately and transferred to a third party. FB knew about this as far back as 2015[1]. Did they let users know at any point? No. Further FB's Chief Security Officers's tweets on Friday failed to show any concern for FB users who were used as pawns. His main concern was to point out that this wasn't actually a FB problem. And let's not forget that Mark Zuckerberg dismissed the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the US elections as "a pretty crazy idea."[2] So the "pitchforks" are a culmination of a significantly longer time frame and not just a reaction to this single news story. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-us-election-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-...

felipeerias 9y ago
"These guys unlawfully got data from a lot of our users. Surely they will delete it if we ask them to, right? "Now they want to buy a lot of ads on our platform, great! "Also their ads are getting a lot of engagement somehow, let's make it cheaper for them to buy more!"
ce4 9y ago
According to an NYT article [0] the tweets had been requested by FB comms: "Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook’s communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos’s tweets, according to two people briefed on the incident. After the tweets set off a furious response, Mr. Stamos deleted them." [0]: https://nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stamos.html https://nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stam...

felipeerias 9y ago

"These guys unlawfully got data from a lot of our users. Surely they will delete it if we ask them to, right? "Now they want to buy a lot of ads on our platform, great! "Also their ads are getting a lot of engagement somehow, let's make it cheaper for them to buy more!"

ce4 9y ago

According to an NYT article [0] the tweets had been requested by FB comms: "Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook’s communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos’s tweets, according to two people briefed on the incident. After the tweets set off a furious response, Mr. Stamos deleted them." [0]: https://nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stamos.html https://nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stam...