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Yes using information for a purpose other than it was collected for. Hopefully this means in Europe we won’t see this spam.
by rikkus 8y ago
Yes using information for a purpose other than it was collected for. Hopefully this means in Europe we won’t see this spam.
- afandian 8y agoHopefully? Hopefully this means we will see facebook employees faceing criminal charges!
- type0 8y agoIf it's a corporate decision they won't be liable. "Similarly, individual employees, managers, and directors are liable for their own malfeasance or lawbreaking while acting on behalf of the corporation, but are not generally liable for the corporation's actions." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Case_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Case_law_... I don't think GDPR has any tooth in this.
- afandian 8y agoMaybe not. But you can hope about the future. Laws are created because of malfeasance. And they can change.
- baq 8y agoi'll be ok-ish with a $5B fine or whatever makes sense. it'll be cheaper then to hold the employees liable.
- pimmen 8y agoIt's a corporate decision made way above the heads of the developers, for sure. But, there has been very notable occasions in history when the US and Europe wasn't content with "I was just following orders" as a defense. And, during at least one of those periods in history, the US was not content with superiors claiming ignorance of any wrong doing either.
- TheGrumpyBrit 8y agoDon't count on it. From the Gizmodo article: > I’ve been trying to get Facebook to disclose shadow contact information to users for almost a year now. But it has even refused to disclose these shadow details to users in Europe, where privacy law is stronger and explicitly requires companies to tell users what data it has on them. A UK resident named Rob Blackie has been asking Facebook to hand over his shadow contact information for months, but Facebook told him it’s part of “confidential” algorithms, and “we are not in a position to provide you the precise details of our algorithms.”
- rikkus 8y agoHmm the information isn't the algorithm. It would be excellent if the courts could get them to release this data!