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Cambridge Analytica also didn't literally hack data or have it shared without a person doing something, right? It seems the part where 14k leaked credentials p
by esrauch 3y ago
Cambridge Analytica also didn't literally hack data or have it shared without a person doing something, right?
It seems the part where 14k leaked credentials provided access to millions of users data is where it becomes their responsibility. It means that people who were fully responsible still had their information leaked because of overexposure of the information.
- brvsft 3y ago> people who were fully responsible... We're talking about people who 'friended' others on 23andme, right? How is that responsible user behavior? I had an account with 23andme before I forced them to delete my data, which was not that difficult to do. One of the things I remember was getting friend invites from random people who were distant cousins, and while I suppose that might be fun conceptually, I never did it because I didn't know any of these people. In what world does a "responsible" user who cares about their privacy add access to personal information, on a website that profiles your DNA, to people who are blood-related but still total strangers? I would call that highly irresponsible, personally. But that's just me, an idiot who avoided all of this by deleting my 23andme account half a decade ago.
- esrauch 3y agoThere's no way that 14k accounts has 7 million friends actively accepted, that would be 500 friends on average. It must be that they reveal info about you to other people who have a genetic match and it was heavily scrapable with the stolen credentials.