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Standard operating procedure for Facebook. Let violations go on unless and until seriously threatened by PR damage or legal action. Deny knowledge, claim "mista
by etiam 9y ago
Standard operating procedure for Facebook.
Let violations go on unless and until seriously threatened by PR damage or legal action. Deny knowledge, claim "mistakes were made", claim "We're so sorry. We will make sure it can't happen again", repeat.
Data exfiltrations of roughly this kind has been going on at least since 2009. Handled according to the formula above.
I just posted links to two writeups from back then:
http://theharmonyguy.com/oldsite/2009/05/28/about-that-verification/ http://theharmonyguy.com/oldsite/2009/05/28/about-that-verif...
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/06/09/how-privacy-fails-the-facebook-applications-debacle/ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/06/09/how-privacy-f...
- etiam 9y agoBy the way: confounded's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641777 over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16640437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16640437 ("Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and Prospects of an Information Civilization") is well worth reading and keeping in mind in this context.