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It's good to see Zuckerberg taking swift and decisive action to try and plug the leaks related to Cambridge Analytica. I think that it is sorely needed, and it
by quantumwoke 9y ago
It's good to see Zuckerberg taking swift and decisive action to try and plug the leaks related to Cambridge Analytica. I think that it is sorely needed, and it is probably too late for many on the Facebook platform.
However, what's more interesting to me is the disturbing details about the spread of political advertising on Facebook. It seems that elections were much more heavily data mined and influenced than before. A nation state level attack on elections seems plausible and highly achievable, and was done not just in the US but France, Germany and elsewhere.
I will be closely following whether the radical transparency measures proposed will have much impact given the upcoming elections in much more corruption prone countries such as India.
- dfsegoat 9y agoI am not an infosec expert, merely an end-user: From my perspective, I would not call this action "swift and decisive", quite honestly: If he were making quick and decisive actions in the interest of privacy, then he would apply the GDPR features to every user.
- gabipurcaru 9y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/zuckerberg-gdpr/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/zuckerberg-gdpr/
- dfsegoat 9y agoThanks - was not aware that he had replied. This concerns me though, because I think that FB has shown us, that any wiggle room they have - they will take it: "Facebook says that some laws elsewhere in the world conflict with GDPR’s new laws for Europe so they can’t be extended everywhere, and that the interface for some of these tools may vary" But in all fairness: I am running into this very same issue RE: GDPR in light of some other compliance laws from the EU and US.
- ForHackernews 9y agoYou can't plug a data leak. It's too late. The data is out there in the wild and will be forever: https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/facebook-cant-clean-up-its-data-spill.html https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/facebook-cant-clean-up-...
- m-p-3 9y agoSure, but there's no reason to let the ship sink if it's not submerged already.
- atwebb 9y agoIt does become less relevant, moreso when the existence of the data itself is a major story.
- ForHackernews 9y agoI guess it depends what use somebody can make of the data itself. Presumably human psychology doesn't change very much, so you could still use it to train and validate models years or decades later.
- rhizome 9y agoNot to mention using it to support a status quo that prevents the information from aging so quickly, maintaining its relevance. News about rocks will remain popular if the spear is never invented.
- throwaway2048 9y agoswift in response to public reaction maybe, they were aware of these issues years ago, they only started acting on them when they got air time. That is in no way a responsible stance.