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> What happens if they find that 50 different organizations had access to and may have saved as much data as CA? Isn't this more than guaranteed? Literally any
by lambda_lover 9y ago
> What happens if they find that 50 different organizations had access to and may have saved as much data as CA?
Isn't this more than guaranteed? Literally any crappy quiz app or game had access to all of this data when they launch Facebook Platform. And I'm betting Kogan's app was far from the most popular on Facebook at the time -- the potential for hundreds of thousands of data harvesters to have exploited this is way too high. I disagree that it's "the end of Facebook", though... in general, users just don't seem to care that much about this sort of thing. I can say for certain that my parents don't understand what this means or why this is bad (they had trouble understanding what was so bad about the Equifax leak as well), so your lowest common denominator user is never going to budge, even after something like this. I'm just hoping that my more technically-inclined friends start to lean away from Facebook's collection of data aggregators.
- taurath 9y agoI just cleaned out my "connected" apps, and found like 4 quiz apps that I don't remember at all with full access to my personal info and friends. Back when they launched login with facebook I used it like a fool (also Spotify at launch ONLY launched with it). I knew this had happened, but its more like now the consequences are coming much more into clarity. > I disagree that it's "the end of Facebook", though If they do what they say and publically shame the apps in a way that people would see, it might. It would be hilarious for them to put up 100 logos of apps on the top and say oh yeah by the way all these apps have been taking your personal information, with lovely trustable names like "e-quiz" and "sofunni"