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It'll probably be too hard to regulate every unethical dark pattern and shitty default on the site. What you can do is force Facebook to allow the user to 1 cl
by sub7 7y ago
It'll probably be too hard to regulate every unethical dark pattern and shitty default on the site.
What you can do is force Facebook to allow the user to 1 click export their graph and all friend data with it in a standardized format.
Once you force them to give me MY friends email addresses, phone numbers, and birthdays in a list, they're fucked because better products can then emerge.
Similar to the idea of regulating Google by making them open source their search index.
- warkdarrior 7y agoI can see Cambridge Analytica or other companies offering $100 for your Facebook data export. Are you sure your friends or your friends' friends will not sell your data?
- sub7 7y agoNo, but if they did I'm kind of the one at fault for making them my "friend". The old world analogy is you go around the world collecting business cards. That address book is yours - you can burn it, sell it or do whatever you want with it - most importantly use it to contact the people who trusted you with the info. People just became more judicious about who got what info. Similar correction needs to happen here. When I add someone to a digital platform, instead of a 1 click process it needs to be a 1 click + select what info to share process. Then the data needs to be portable.
- scarface74 7y agoThe last thing I want is to make it easier for my “friends” to share my information on other sites. Wasn’t that the entire issue with Cambridge Analytica?