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> The point of what we’re trying to do here is to create a situation where we have a real person-to-person relationship with any developer who is asking for the

by creato 9y ago

> The point of what we’re trying to do here is to create a situation where we have a real person-to-person relationship with any developer who is asking for the most sensitive data. Why is Facebook so dead set on sharing data at all? People keep lumping Facebook in with the rest (Google/Amazon/Microsoft?/other data mining companies) but my impression was that these companies do not do this. It seems reckless to the point of absurdity. Some other event like this will happen again in the future as long as they continue to insist on this, it is inevitable.

M_Bakhtiari 9y ago
>Why is Facebook so dead set on sharing data at all? What else are they supposed to do to keep their massive infrastructure running? People would clearly rather invite the likes of CA into their private lives than pay even the tiniest little fee to keep their contacts and pictures in the cloud together with those of their friends. I unsubscribed from Facebook years ago, because it just didn't seem like a good deal to me.
- creato 9y ago
  What I thought Facebook and every other data company did: build tools to sell ads based on the data, but not actually share the data itself.
cynicalreason 9y ago
ahm .. you mean SELLING, that's what FB does, they have no other product besides their userbase ? google has been scrutinized in the past, one big difference is google doesn't offer this data to private companies (yeah yeah .. NSA ) and their model never really allowed someone like CA to get their data. google's original product was search, from that they were able to extrapolate insane amounts of user data that they then used in their biggest product: ADS. but they never provided the USER data, they provided an interface for their ad customers to better target their ads. so in a way google uses the data to create products around it while for facebook users and their data ARE the product.
cjhopman 9y ago
Of course other companies do this. Look at all the different permissions an Android app can request. Go look at the Google+ APIs. Go look at Microsoft's Xbox Live APIs.

by creato 9y ago

M_Bakhtiari 9y ago

>Why is Facebook so dead set on sharing data at all? What else are they supposed to do to keep their massive infrastructure running? People would clearly rather invite the likes of CA into their private lives than pay even the tiniest little fee to keep their contacts and pictures in the cloud together with those of their friends. I unsubscribed from Facebook years ago, because it just didn't seem like a good deal to me.

creato 9y ago
What I thought Facebook and every other data company did: build tools to sell ads based on the data, but not actually share the data itself.

cynicalreason 9y ago

ahm .. you mean SELLING, that's what FB does, they have no other product besides their userbase ? google has been scrutinized in the past, one big difference is google doesn't offer this data to private companies (yeah yeah .. NSA ) and their model never really allowed someone like CA to get their data. google's original product was search, from that they were able to extrapolate insane amounts of user data that they then used in their biggest product: ADS. but they never provided the USER data, they provided an interface for their ad customers to better target their ads. so in a way google uses the data to create products around it while for facebook users and their data ARE the product.

cjhopman 9y ago

Of course other companies do this. Look at all the different permissions an Android app can request. Go look at the Google+ APIs. Go look at Microsoft's Xbox Live APIs.