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Facebook's fear isn't privacy requests made directly by individuals (likely a tiny number), but rather privacy requests made programmatically, on behalf of user
by nugget 9y ago
Facebook's fear isn't privacy requests made directly by individuals (likely a tiny number), but rather privacy requests made programmatically, on behalf of users, by third party services who can use clever marketing and growth hacks to scale quickly. There are some interpretations of GDPR that would allow this broadly and it could create some meaningful competitive scenarios.
- mathie25 9y agoCould you link to some of those interpretations or give the article/recital where you think this could be possible ?
- nugget 9y agoI don't know that much has been written about this yet, but consider data portability as one example. If an EU court rules that Facebook must allow extraction of a social graph with an email address and consistent ID included for each contact, it dramatically weakens their network effect and lowers the barriers to on-boarding users onto competing social networks.
- kolmogorov 9y agoIn that scenario I could also write a quiz app that gives you your personality based on that export. That would be an amazing data set for a researcher at e.g. Cambridge and an example of the EU supporting researchers.
- tanilama 9y agoHello n, what you described is what Cambridge Analytica did. Zero chance Facebook would risk their business, AGAIN.