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Your comment glosses over that the API that allowed users to share other user's private data.
by ratg13 4y ago
Your comment glosses over that the API that allowed users to share other user's private data.
- CharlesW 4y agoFor anyone who's curious, the wildly leaky API feature that gave broad access to friend data was called "friends permission", and was killed in 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-c...
- closeparen 4y agoA social application could not meaningfully have anything like openness or data portability if the scope of the API were strictly your own profile.
- filoleg 4y agoA sidenote that might be irrelevant, but fully private data never got shared. Only the friend data that is visible to the person who gave the API permissions. Here is a simple example: you posted 3 photos on your FB profile. One was fully public, another one was friends-only, and the last one was only available to you and your relatives (which i am not one of). If i used such a cambridge analytica app and gave permission to my friend info, it would be able to get the first two photos, but not the last one (because I have no access to it myself).