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As Mr. Zuckerberg stated personally, the main product of Facebook are ads. That means, everything around ads and user tracking is their core business. Not whate

As Mr. Zuckerberg stated personally, the main product of Facebook are ads. That means, everything around ads and user tracking is their core business. Not whatever users do, but whatever users see and click when an ad is up. Making privacy settings more restrictive or convenient goes directly against Facebook's business model, as does transparency about data brokerage and third parties. Saying that basically the users are to blame, because they are sharing their data completely misses the motivation behind Facebook's pretense, that it's all about users, social media and making the world better. In reality it is about collecting and selling as much data and as much ads as possible, all while blatantly violating their users privacy.

Nextgrid 6y ago
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this. To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes. Facebook was acting as a neutral carrier here and respected the user's intention of sharing their data with CA.
- ralston3 6y ago
  > The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this. Hilarious. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is in regards to a nefarious 3rd party using Facebook's pipes in a way that violated Facebook's policy. There are emails to show that Facebook knew about this, and did not act to remove CA's access to said pipes (no, [1] there are literally emails about this that were found during discovery). You even mentioned it > To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes Yes. They abused it. They abused it and were allowed to continue abusing it because Facebook's business model is data, not user privacy. You're blaming CA for what FB quite literally (and I mean quite literally) allowed them to do, told them to stop doing, then turned a blind eye when CA _continued_ to do it. Again. Not my opinion. It's a matter of factual record. Links - https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers-knew-cambridge-analytica-2015-2019-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers... - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-messages-reveal-when-facebook-first-knew-about-cambridge-n1045861 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-mes... Edit: Formatting
  - lovecg 6y ago
    Thanks for the links. After having read the entire thread (it’s not long), a few things stand out: 1) This was not treated as a high pri issue at all until the story broke out in the media (compare the frequency of messages before and after) 2) There was a mad scramble to understand where exactly CA got their data from. It was far from obvious and there was no access to close as CA didn’t even have any app or a relationship with FB.

Nextgrid 6y ago

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this. To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes. Facebook was acting as a neutral carrier here and respected the user's intention of sharing their data with CA.

ralston3 6y ago
> The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this. Hilarious. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is in regards to a nefarious 3rd party using Facebook's pipes in a way that violated Facebook's policy. There are emails to show that Facebook knew about this, and did not act to remove CA's access to said pipes (no, [1] there are literally emails about this that were found during discovery). You even mentioned it > To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes Yes. They abused it. They abused it and were allowed to continue abusing it because Facebook's business model is data, not user privacy. You're blaming CA for what FB quite literally (and I mean quite literally) allowed them to do, told them to stop doing, then turned a blind eye when CA _continued_ to do it. Again. Not my opinion. It's a matter of factual record. Links - https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers-knew-cambridge-analytica-2015-2019-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers... - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-messages-reveal-when-facebook-first-knew-about-cambridge-n1045861 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-mes... Edit: Formatting
- lovecg 6y ago
  Thanks for the links. After having read the entire thread (it’s not long), a few things stand out: 1) This was not treated as a high pri issue at all until the story broke out in the media (compare the frequency of messages before and after) 2) There was a mad scramble to understand where exactly CA got their data from. It was far from obvious and there was no access to close as CA didn’t even have any app or a relationship with FB.