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There are so many companies that collect and sell data on Americans that I don't understand why our Congress is grandstanding on Facebook. Hello credit card com
by crystaln 9y ago
There are so many companies that collect and sell data on Americans that I don't understand why our Congress is grandstanding on Facebook. Hello credit card companies?
These hearings seem more political based on Facebooks percieved biases than focused on protecting consumers.
- jhanschoo 9y agoBecause FB is the most visible example of it. c.f. fraud and embezzlement enforcement. Regardless, whatever comes out of the case w.r.t. FB will determine policy for the other personal-data companies.
- msravi 9y agoNo. Because FB data was used by Trump to win. FB was very visible earlier too, and the influence it weilded was well known. It was just extremely upsetting that the other side used it this time, and won. Political narratives world over, have always been monopolized by the left, via institutional control. When narratives are democratized, they invariably move to the right. Social media has democratized setting of the narrative, and that is the reason that we are seeing a wave of right wing populism across the world, from India to UK to the US. The clampdown on Facebook is an attempt to regain institutional control of the current most valuable means of setting political narrative.
- KozmoNau7 9y ago>"Political narratives world over, have always been monopolized by the left, via institutional control. When narratives are democratized, they invariably move to the right." Haha what? Nevermind the nonsense of dividing the world into "left" and "right", you are also absolutely wrong. Please back up your claims, because I see a hell of a lot of conservative media coverage control, all over the world.
- scardine 9y agoOk, credit card knows what you buy but not the last time you talked to your friends and what you said to them.
- Sumaso 9y agoThen why not go after Google?
- mercurysmessage 9y agoWhy not go after both?
- scardine 9y agoBecause Google does no evil? /S
- sappapp 9y agoFacebook's platform allows outside parties to target users based on that data.
- Ma8ee 9y agoSo credit card companies don't let outside companies use their data to tailor marketing directed at you?
- AllegedAlec 9y agoOr give your data to, I don't know, companies like Equifax...
- tjoff 9y agoNo?
- briandear 9y agoNot to influence elections.
- danShumway 9y agoHonest question - why should we believe Equifax would act differently from Facebook? Are there additional regulations or something? Every company under the sun wants to do credit checks before they do business with me; and they often don't ask me about it in advance. Is there some mechanism that would make that data less valuable to them if they wanted to do political targeting? I don't take it as a given that Equifax would be more careful with my data than Facebook is, but maybe I'm missing something about how credit regulations work?
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- crystaln 9y agoI have not heard the consent decree mentioned.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIn the end they want this data for their campaigning.
- DanBC 9y agoFacebook gathered data. They shared some of that data with other companies. They allowed those companies to use the data to manipulate the viewpoints of users. This manipulation was done covertly during an election year. This is different to the excessive data collection that other companies do. I'd welcome greater scrutiny of the data as a company asset model of service provision, but we need to be aware that there's a spread of behaviour.
- wslh 9y agoBecause they just read newspaper covers and only mainstream media? No joking, suddenly they discovered something really serious.
- dfxm12 9y agoThere are so many companies that collect and sell data on Americans that I don't understand why our Congress is grandstanding on Facebook. Those other companies haven't arguably violated a consent decree with the FTC as Facebook has.
- rypskar 9y ago>There are so many companies that collect and sell data on Americans that I don't understand why our Congress is grandstanding on Facebook. Hello credit card companies? Maybe it is time for you to also get privacy laws where my data is mine and don't belong to the company that store it for me. You can use the data for what you need it to, but should not be allowed to sell or give it to any 3rd party without asking me if I allow it every time you want to share it.