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Wasn't this already known though? There was an undiscovered bug that allowed organizations access greater than they were supposed to have, I feel like it's beat
by getsugablitz2 8y ago
Wasn't this already known though? There was an undiscovered bug that allowed organizations access greater than they were supposed to have, I feel like it's beating a dead horse by this point.
- roywiggins 8y ago1. It wasn't a bug, it was a feature. The API explicitly allowed apps access to friends' information. They weren't exploiting the API. 2. The article describes the Cambridge Analytica database in particular being available "to verified researchers" but someone threw credentials onto GitHub where anyone could have borrowed them
- anonetal 8y agoRegarding 2: note that this is not the Cambridge Analytica data, rather similar data collected by researchers at Cambridge.
- roywiggins 8y agoYou're right. It's confusing, because the data that was supplied to CA was supplied by another Cambridge researcher.
- minton 8y agoAccording to the article they didn’t access friends’ data. >Like other quiz apps, it requested consent to access the user’s profile (friends’ data was not collected)
- mfoy_ 8y agoI feel like this issue, and others like it, cannot be thrown in people's faces enough. People need to get angry to affect change. If we want our industry to take privacy seriously, we need people to take a principled stand. Making them aware of, and outraged over, flagrant violations of your privacy, and trust, is the easiest way to do that.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoThe battle is lost. People by and large have decided that it is worth sacrificing most of their privacy to use "free" services like Facebook and google. The only relief at this point is regulatory.
- icebraining 8y agoAwareness is not just useful to convince people to act individually, it's also useful if you want to pass that legislation.
- aeorgnoieang 8y agoWhy bother protecting something that most people, as you yourself claim, don't actually value that highly?
- tome 8y agoBecause it's actually valuable.
- ksk 8y agoWhat does that mean? People don't value it, ergo, not valuable.
- walterstucco 8y agoYour privacy is my privacy We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's
- dllthomas 8y agoYeah, and just because many people are happy to trade it away doesn't mean everyone is. (And of course many don't realize just how much they're trading away...)