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If the problem was lack of choice, why do the large majority of all Facebook users never change their privacy settings? Or why did hundreds of thousands of use
by hanspeter 8y ago
If the problem was lack of choice, why do the large majority of all Facebook users never change their privacy settings?
Or why did hundreds of thousands of users actively choose to share their data with a random company called Cambridge Analytica?
The problem is not lack of choice. The problem is that people don't care.
- joering2 8y agoSlight correction: since 9/10 said they care about their privacy, its more that they are not educated on what Facebook does with their data, or how to limit their own exposure. Lack of education != ignorance.
- hanspeter 8y agoMaybe they do care about their privacy, they just care more about sharing stuff and more about looking at videoes than they care about looking at ther privacy settings. The media has been all about Facebook and privacy for many, many years. Facebook have had popup dialogs on user feeds asking users to check their privacy settings. People are not uneducated about it. They just don't care enough to change their behavior or make an active change on their settings.
- CaptainZapp 8y agoOr why did hundreds of thousands of users actively choose to share their data with a random company called Cambridge Analytica? They certainly have never chosen to do so. You can accuse them of participating in some innane quiz, but it was exactly the big scandal that not only the participants' data, but also that of their friends was sucked and resold to Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge by the "researchers".
- hanspeter 8y agoAll participants have actively clicked a button to confirm that they would give Cambridge Analytica access to their profile data and data from their friends. The scandal was not that the data was collected without the participants knowledge. The scandal was that they used the data for something else, than what they initially had told the participants.