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What 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
by frankzinger 9y ago
What 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.