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> But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it. We need to fix that. This is so d
by louthy 9y ago
> But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it. We need to fix that.
This is so disingenuous. When almost the entire world has a FB account, ‘fixing it’ now is essentially closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. The data has been harvested, it can’t be unharvested. There is no fix.
Personally, I’m disgusted that my data has probably been compromised just because I have some less technically astute friends who sign up for these idiotic apps.
I could deal with FB having my data, and I could deal with being targeted for ads through tools provided by FB. But to have my raw profile data being handed around and potentially misused isn’t acceptable.
I hope the fallout from this is severe for them. It is absolutely a massive breach of trust.
- uptown 9y ago"Personally, I’m disgusted that my data has probably been compromised just because I have some less technically astute friends who sign up for these idiotic apps." Now just imagine what happens to your contact info when your friend links their email account or their address book to "find their friends" on all of these services?
- louthy 9y agoQuite. Although it’s not quite as extreme as having access to my timeline (for example). What’s annoying is even now after a week of reporting I have no way of finding out what, if any, of my non-public content has been compromised; or what the scope of the data was available at various periods in facebook’s history. We need an equivalent of haveibeenpwned