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Well, the difference is that it was not unauthorized access. It was allowed by Facebook on purpose, because this is their business model. It is WORSE than a br

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > It is WORSE than a breach, because FB is complicit. A breach in which the custodian is complicit is still a breach, not something worse. Obviously, the its worse from the perspective of the custodians degree of responsibility if they are actively malicious rather than negligent or innocent, but this is still within the usual definition of a breach of private data. A breach is about the subject’s privacy being violated, which can happen with or without the complicity of the custodian of the data.