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Thus you end up with 3rd party clients gaining access to data of others who never granted them explicit access (aka Cambridge Analytica) through friend connecti

• malvosenior 7y ago
  Right but that's not "everyone's data", it's just data available to people who granted that app permission. You can't for instance get a FB firehose of everyone's posts. That's the nature of social data (and it's already this way for email -- Google knows what you email @gmail.com addresses even if you don't have one). I personally see nothing wrong with this. I didn't think Cambridge Analytica was a big deal either, just something the media blew out of proportion. If you communicate with people, what you send them will be available to whoever they share it with.
  • NeedMoreTea 7y ago
    There is something qualitatively different about showing a private email to a friend or partner, and it being available to an unknown third party business because someone got dark-patterned into agreeing.
    • malvosenior 7y ago
      There's no way to prevent this though. You already don't know what your connection's email clients are doing with the emails you send them. That's a much bigger info leak than anything that's going to happen on FB but no one seems concerned about it.