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What good would that do if you wanted to know what someone was doing with a profile they downloaded of you prior to 2015? FB says that any developer giving that
by xkjkls 9y ago
What good would that do if you wanted to know what someone was doing with a profile they downloaded of you prior to 2015? FB says that any developer giving that data to another organization would violate its TOS, but given the sheer scale of apps that were on Facebook back then, it almost certainly happened many thousands of time.
- toss1 9y agoTrue, I was only looking at regulations going forward, this wouldn't tell you at all what was exfiltrated in the past. I'd totally support that requirement even tho it's a massive task (it's not like FB lacks the funds/resources).
- xkjkls 9y agoI'm sure they totally have access to that information, but that will tell you "X organization accessed Y at Z time", and it may be almost impossible to determine what was done with that data after that point. Even if transferring the data collected was against Facebook's ToS, we at least know of one example (Cambridge Analytica) where that happened, and given that there were 8 million total developers on Facebook Graph, it's sort of unlikely to imagine there weren't thousands of other actors that did the same thing. Which all leads you to conclude, any Facebook data you had prior to 2015 is probably in the hands of someone you don't really trust. That's not a fun scenario; even if facebook fixes things from that point forward.