3 ms·

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes

• dtagames 5y ago
  The original document, shown in the post, is fascinating. The TL;DR is that FB keeps 15,000 datapoints for each user but they are not labeled with privacy information. Any consumer of the data (an ad broker, advertiser, etc) can take a dip in the pool and extract what they like, since none of it is labeled with privacy protections. The document admits that FB will eventually need to move to a "consent model" (making clear that the current data collection happens without consent). The document places the blame on FB's own "family of apps" which record and ingest this data from user behavior without any privacy labeling.
  • fatnoah 5y ago
    It's not quite as willy-nilly as that, as the FCC settlement required some controls to be placed on access to data, however a huge part of that effort requires manual review. That's manageable. What this doc shows (IMHO) is that the current manual approach won't work at all for a landscape where rules and regulations change frequently.
    • dtagames 5y ago
      That's not what the document says. It says the data is unlabeled at the "tens of thousands of points" of injection and that, without that labeling cannot be controlled in its access. It doesn't say the process fails because of manual reviews. The "changing legislation" that concerns them is the legislation which requires control over the data which the current system does not have (data about privacy and access). It also says that it will take them hundreds of people-years to re-architect and redeploy their systems into something that does have that kind of privacy labeling.