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Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data with 61 Companies
- tyfon 8y agoThey were given exemptions but facebook doesn't say if they were used, only that they could have been in theory? Give me a break. Why would they ask for and be given an exemption if it was not to use the features.
- ndiscussion 8y ago> In May 2015, Facebook realized that apps were abusing this loophole in its permission system to trick one user into granting permission to the personal data of hundreds of his friends What loophole? Facebook intentionally allowed apps to harvest friend data with impunity.
- basch 8y agoI actually dont think so. Faacebooks major competitive advantage is their data NOT being in other peoples hands. You can mess with the data, target people based on the data, etc, IF you do so from within facebooks environment. The last thing they want is data leaving their ecosystem. They made Graph Search and Dev waay too powerful, and people stared using it, before facebook caught on to how much data was leaking. Their intent was never to lose control of the data, because that makes what they offer less valuable.
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- mwnivek 8y agoLarger discussion from 8 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441648