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Amazing how a third party can harvest that amount of data and Facebook is freely handing it out... they really have no control over the data they process and ha
by kerng 8y ago
Amazing how a third party can harvest that amount of data and Facebook is freely handing it out... they really have no control over the data they process and handle. It's been shown again and again.
It seems Facebook should be forced to disable any kind of data sharing with 3rd parties since they obviously cannot make it work. They have enough issues with the security of internal data handling procedurs already that they have to fix, before giving data to third parties.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago>It seems Facebook should be forced to disable any kind of data sharing with 3rd parties since they obviously cannot make it work. That is a massive part of their model, so that will never happen. The alternative of course is to stop giving them data.
- anonytrary 8y agoThird parties can always just resort to web-scraping if API support is dropped. If you consistently scrape public pages on Facebook, you can amass a trove of data within a year. By supporting an API, Facebook offers a controlled avenue for this to happen, which people pay for because it's easier than scraping. It will still happen if this doesn't exist, though.