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The reports have been so vague as to what Cambridge Analytica did its hard to know what they have or how they used it. I feel like the political climate is so
by redm 9y ago
The reports have been so vague as to what Cambridge Analytica did its hard to know what they have or how they used it.
I feel like the political climate is so energized right now that everyone is freaking out instead of waiting for details and specifics. Facebook seems to be taking this very seriously and, generally speaking, I've always been impressed with Zuckerburgs ability to be introspective and make changes instead of digging in his heels.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment while all this shakes out.
- danso 9y agoWhat exactly has been vague about what CA is accused of? You don’t believe or can’t understand how data from a purportedly academic app was used to harvest data from millions of user friends? Or how that data was then sold to a commercial entity?
- redm 9y agoCompanies have been scrapping information off Facebook since they opened up the platform. We had to abandon some plans to use Facebook as a social mechanism for photo sharing because of new restrictions Facebook added in 2016. My point is, IMHO, Facebook has been continually tightening controls and adding more privacy features for years, so in this case, I give them the benefit of the doubt.
- frankzinger 9y agoWhat doubt, though? They gave unconsenting users' data to third parties for years. It was policy. They knew what they were doing but didn't care. (And I'm not sure what you mean by "scraping", but this was not anonymous web scraping, it was done through APIs these devs were given access to by Facebook.)
- PDivide 9y agoThe problem wit this argument is that they ARE consenting users, they just don't care enough to know. From the facebook sign up page "By clicking Create Account, you agree to our Terms and that you have read our Data Policy..." On the data policy they say that your data is given to third parties. The problem is that common sense has been removed from our society. You DON'T need a PHD, as another poster said, you merely need common sense.