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you make it sound like facebook was innocent here. Facebook build api and functionality that enabled data to be slurped, they also build how the warnings of wh
by unionpivo 6y ago
you make it sound like facebook was innocent here.
Facebook build api and functionality that enabled data to be slurped, they also build how the warnings of what data is being exported to whom are displayed (or not).
Further more, since they control all the data in the first place it wouldn't be difficult for them to show a page that shows exactly which entity accessed what data they have on you.
Bottom line is that this whole mess couldn't happen without Facebook deliberately making decisions that enabled it.
And I know some of the smart people that worked there at that time. I don't believe for a second that nobody at Facebook had any idea what was happening.
- cm2012 6y agoFacebook made the data "slurpable" because techies at the time were demanding FB be more open with their data instead of being a walled garden. That was the programming community zeitgeist at the time.