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Thhis isnt even about theft, but that people give their permission willy nilly to bad actors. Thats not a solvable problem
by buboard 7y ago
Thhis isnt even about theft, but that people give their permission willy nilly to bad actors. Thats not a solvable problem
- bilbo0s 7y ago>Thats not a solvable problem Well, we're not trying to "solve" the problem. We're just trying to clarify that Twitter has no legal liability for the problem. If you delegate access to your account and someone proxies it; or there are all of a sudden all these GDPR violations flooding in because you gave away access to your contacts' private information when you delegated access to your account; etc etc; that liability should fall on either the user, or the entity to which the user delegated access. It shouldn't really fall on Twitter. That's all we're talking about here, just making sure that legal and criminal liability is matched with delegated authorization. Because the legal ramifications are what tend to ensure security and privacy.
- buboard 7y agoThat’s what platforms already do - yet they are being slandered for not saving their users from themselves.
- bilbo0s 7y agoFirst, I doubt many people knowingly allowed Cambridge Analytica access to their data. Second, slandering is not the same as legal liability. If people are slandering you, sue them. But people can't sue you and say FB gave some company access to my data unless FB actually does that without the user's knowledge. Lastly, under this new system, no one would be saying that FB is legally liable for a user explicitly granting access to a third party. Vast majority of people would lay the blame for that at the foot of the idiot user. Again, we're just trying to verify that the legislation reflects that very common sense view.