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Yes this is insane. Facebook didn't even have a security issue. They just allowed my friends to export the fact that I listen to the Goo Goo Dolls (crazy how th
by tschellenbach 7y ago
Yes this is insane. Facebook didn't even have a security issue. They just allowed my friends to export the fact that I listen to the Goo Goo Dolls (crazy how the media spinned this). Also, I signed up for Facebook, Equifax on the other hand keeps data on me without my permission. They had a real data breach, and they lost important data, not just Facebook likes.
- FireBeyond 7y agoThat's downplaying it a bit. FB allowed the exporting of all sorts of data, from your relationship status, demographic and contact information, information on employers, interpersonal relationship graph to companies who used it to mine information on you without your explicit knowledge (you could refuse them access, but as soon as one of your friends allowed it, your refusal became moot). Then it built a whole bunch of tooling and ecosystem around this industry. Then it made a lot of money from it. Then it played dumb. "We didn't know", "We don't allow it, even though we built tools for no other purpose than to facilitate it", and so on. A little more nefarious than "your friends can tell someone you listen to this band".