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Sorry but I fear the horse has already bolted. Even if you were able to delete yourself entirely from Facebook. You have been "consumed" already. Your data wa
by laythea 9y ago
Sorry but I fear the horse has already bolted.
Even if you were able to delete yourself entirely from Facebook. You have been "consumed" already.
Your data was valuable in at least 2 ways:
- Monetize to companies such as Cambridge Analytics.
- Train Facebook's AI models using it.
What was probably happening, was that Facebook was selling your data to other companies so that they can train AI models/make conclusions etc. In addition, Facebook itself is using this data to train AI, make conclusions etc.
Facebook will no longer be able to Monetize to companies as much after this media.
However, and this is the big one, if they use your data to train their models to target individuals (and therefore "take advantage" of them), then they can claim that your data was not used. And then they sell the models, or the results of the models. Its like indirectly selling your data.
This could be a big win for Facebook, because if Facebook does not dish out our information to other companies, it will *uniquely" be placed to provide such services to the rest of the world.
And this will be almost impossible to regulate.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago> then they sell the models, or the results of the models Meh, the models will be worthless in a few months, and that is if they aren't already worthless right now. All those black boxes with magic coefficients from inputs to outputs are inherently unmaintainable. Toss them a black swan, and it all goes pear-shaped.
- spullara 9y agoFacebook doesn't and has never sold data. It has a free developer platform that has been reduced over time to almost nothing and it has ad products where it uses the data it has to deliver ads to people that match criteria.