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Not really. It's like buying a space on the wall to advertise inside the all you can eat restaurant. The restaurant isn't telling you who goes into the restaur

Not really. It's like buying a space on the wall to advertise inside the all you can eat restaurant. The restaurant isn't telling you who goes into the restaurant. They're just selling you access to those people through that ad. ----- The other problem, the Cambridge Analytica problem, is a bit different. It's like saying that the restaurant requires you to tell them your name and other personal information in order to eat at the restaurant. Maybe it's to send flyers or deals, doesn't matter. The problem happens when the restaurant also asks for your friends personal information, and you give it to them without asking your friends. That's basically what Facebook is under fire about. Allowing your friends to very easily give your information out without you knowing.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
I think "giving information about friends" is kind of a stretch. Facebook has that information. Clicking something so Facebook does something with it isn't quite the same as, say, entering all that info into a text field. Maybe it is legally, but morally, from a commen sense perspective, FB gives the info out. Allowing API access is giving info. We all know how servers work. You can't "take" something, it always gets sent.
- patejam 8y ago
  That's why I said "very easily". I'm not saying it's necessarily the friend's fault, but the trigger is one of your friends clicking "Accept" on one of these apps. I'm also just clarifying what happened, because people don't seem to understand how any of it works. "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad.
  - PavlovsCat 8y ago
    > "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad. Yeah, but those are the cases where it's especially important to not mix things up, so thanks for elaborating!

PavlovsCat 8y ago

I think "giving information about friends" is kind of a stretch. Facebook has that information. Clicking something so Facebook does something with it isn't quite the same as, say, entering all that info into a text field. Maybe it is legally, but morally, from a commen sense perspective, FB gives the info out. Allowing API access is giving info. We all know how servers work. You can't "take" something, it always gets sent.

patejam 8y ago
That's why I said "very easily". I'm not saying it's necessarily the friend's fault, but the trigger is one of your friends clicking "Accept" on one of these apps. I'm also just clarifying what happened, because people don't seem to understand how any of it works. "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  > "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad. Yeah, but those are the cases where it's especially important to not mix things up, so thanks for elaborating!